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Red Badge of Courage vocabulary terms

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

causing fear, apprehension, or dread of discouraging or awesome strength, size, difficulty, etc.; intimidating

a)

facetious

b)

vociferous

c)

formidable

d)

perfunctory

2.

boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent rudely, brazenly

a)

futile

b)

diffidently

c)

despondent

d)

insolently

3.

loud sound, noise, equivalent to clang, ringing, tolling

a)

zeal

b)

vociferous

c)

clangor

d)

valor

4.

without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled:

a)

unprecedented

b)

perfunctory

c)

careering

d)

futile

5.

an establishment for producing castings in molten metal. the act or process of founding or casting metal

a)

paean

b)

haven

c)

foundry

d)

imprecation

6.

the act or instance of saying or pleading in protest, objection, or disapproval argument, protest

a)

vigilance

b)

remonstrance

c)

derision

d)

zeal

7.

performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial

a)

vociferous

b)

perfunctory

c)

insolently

d)

unscrupulous

8.

to separate into parts with force or violence

a)

rend

b)

careering

c)

deride

d)

conciliate

9.

not meant to be taken seriously or literally -foolish, silly

a)

facetious

b)

despondent

c)

futile

d)

vociferous

10.

to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock ridicule, disparage

a)

deride

b)

careering

c)

conciliate

d)

assent

11.

state or quality of being ever awake and alert; sleeplessly watchful

a)

valor

b)

remonstrance

c)

vigilance

d)

haven

12.

to agree or concur; subscribe to

a)

assent

b)

zeal

c)

conciliate

d)

harangue

13.

fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies

a)

clangor

b)

diffidently

c)

foundry

d)

skirmish

14.

fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.

a)

derision

b)

zeal

c)

valor

d)

assent

15.

any song of praise, joy, or triumph

a)

vociferous

b)

skirmish

c)

paean

d)

haven

16.

to run or move rapidly along; go at full speed

a)

zeal

b)

deride

c)

futile

d)

careering

17.

to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate, make happy

a)

felicitate

b)

imprecation

c)

harangue

d)

paean

18.

incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless, pointless, fruitless

a)

diffidently

b)

unscrupulous

c)

futile

d)

blanched

19.

lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timidly; shyly; hesitantly

a)

unscrupulous

b)

diffidently

c)

foundry

d)

perfunctory

20.

feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom

a)

diffidently

b)

derision

c)

remonstrance

d)

despondent

21.

a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack

a)

formidable

b)

skirmish

c)

paean

d)

harangue

22.

to make pale, as with sickness or fear

a)

blanched

b)

deride

c)

rend

d)

assent

23.

a harbor or port; any place of shelter and safety; refuge; asylum

a)

imprecation

b)

harangue

c)

haven

d)

rend

24.

crying out noisily; clamorous; loud

a)

valor

b)

vociferous

c)

vigilance

d)

zeal

25.

unrestrained; conscienceless; unprincipled.

a)

valor

b)

clangor

c)

unscrupulous

d)

insolently