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The Interlopers Vocabulary

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word most likely means to dislike intensely, to hate?

a)

plight

b)

detest

c)

languor

d)

succor

2.

Which word most likely means to speak rapidly or incoherently, to mutter or jabber?

a)

pious

b)

interloper

c)

pestilential

d)

gabble

3.

Which word most likely means steep, sheer, vertical?

a)

detest

b)

precipitous

c)

wont

d)

pinion

4.

Which word most likely means a troubling situation, dilemma, or predicament?

a)

spur

b)

acquiesce

c)

plight

d)

medley

5.

Which word most likely means deadly, harmful, devastating?

a)

pestilential

b)

acquiesce

c)

affray

d)

ere

6.

Which word most likely means a person skilled in planting, managing, or caring for trees; a woodsman?

a)

forester

b)

roebuck

c)

maurauder

d)

Carpathians

7.

Which word most likely means a lateral (side) ridge projecting from a mountain or mountain range?

a)

precipitous

b)

languor

c)

skirling

d)

spur

8.

Which word most likely means devout, religious, moral?

a)

pious

b)

roebuck

c)

pestilential

d)

languor

9.

Which word most likely means to consent or comply passively; to accept reluctantly but without protest?

a)

succor

b)

acquiesce

c)

condolence

d)

maurauder

10.

Which word most likely means a mixture, blend or combination?

a)

spur

b)

pinion

c)

medley

d)

gabble

11.

Which word most likely means accustomed to or used to, likely?

a)

ere

b)

wont

c)

affray

d)

wrest

12.

Which word most likely means to restrain or immobilize, to hold down?

a)

plight

b)

detest

c)

pinion

d)

wrest

13.

Which word most likely means assistance in time of distress; aid or relief?

a)

succor

b)

spur

c)

languor

d)

wont

14.

Which word most likely means a lack of physical or mental energy, listlessness, lethargy?

a)

succor

b)

interloper

c)

skirling

d)

languor

15.

Which word most likely means before?

a)

wont

b)

pinion

c)

ere

d)

medley

16.

Which word most likely means to deprive the occupancy of something, especially property?

a)

dispossess

b)

affray

c)

wrest

d)

acquiesce

17.

Which word most likely means a public fight, noisy quarrel or disturbance between two or more people?

a)

roebuck

b)

spur

c)

plight

d)

affray

18.

What word most likely means an expression of sympathy or sorrow?

a)

condolence

b)

medley

c)

succor

d)

languor

19.

What word most likely means a male deer?

a)

poaching

b)

pinion

c)

roebuck

d)

spur

20.

Which word most likely means illegal hunting?

a)

acquiesce

b)

poaching

c)

forester

d)

marauder

21.

Which word most likely means a bandit, outlaw or raider; one who roves in search or plunder?

a)

pestilential

b)

spur

c)

maurauder

d)

forester

22.

Which word most likely means a mountain range across central and eastern Europe?

a)

precipitous

b)

gabble

c)

spur

d)

Carpathians

23.

Which word most likely means to forcibly pull something from a person’s grasp?

a)

skirling

b)

interloper

c)

ere

d)

wrest

24.

Which word most likely means a high, shrill, wailing sound (often associated with bagpipes)?

a)

pinion

b)

wont

c)

acquiece

d)

skirling

25.

Which word most likely means an intruder or trespasser?

a)

interloper

b)

roebuck

c)

spur

d)

forester