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Jasper Jones Chapter 1 vocabulary

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Choose the correct meaning: transgression

a)

Having or showing a wish to harm someone because you think that they harmed you

b)

a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favour

c)

An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence

d)

Scornful

2.

Select the correct definition: unflappable

a)

enclosed within an alien land

b)

Having or showing calmness in a crisis

c)

Loss of courage in the face of trouble

d)

Talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way

3.

Select the correct definition: portentous

a)

Of momentous significance

b)

Impossible to deny or disprove

c)

To be filled with courage or strength of purpose

d)

a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favour

4.

Identify the correct definition: sycophant

a)

Loss of courage in the face of trouble

b)

Talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way

c)

An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence

d)

a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favour

5.

Select the correct definition: vindictive

a)

An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence

b)

Territory enclosed within an alien land

c)

Scornful

d)

Having or showing a wish to harm someone because you think that they harmed you

6.

misdemeanour

a)

Territory enclosed within an alien land

disdainful

b)

A minor wrongdoing

c)

Scornful

d)

A natural ability to do something

7.

Select the correct definition: irrefutable

a)

Impossible to deny or disprove

b)

A natural ability to do something

c)

A minor wrongdoing

d)

To stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way

8.

brusque

a)

To stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way

b)

Talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way

c)

Having or showing calmness in a crisis

d)

to flatter; or fawn on others in order to gain favour

9.

disdainful

a)

a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favour

b)

Scornful

c)

Loss of courage in the face of trouble

d)

A fragment

10.

Pariah

a)

Walk about casually or needlessly

b)

To burn with little smoke and no flame

c)

to abrogate

d)

an outcast