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Tone Words Set 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.



(a)  

2.

What is the correct spelling of the word?

a)

poignant

b)

piognant

c)

pogant

d)

poigant

3.

What is the correct spelling of the word?

a)

incredlous

b)

Incredulous

c)

incredible

d)

incredulos

4.

What is the correct spelling of the word?

a)

forthright

b)

fortnight

c)

forthwright

d)

forthwright

5.

What is the correct spelling of the word?

a)

ry

b)

wry

c)

y

d)

wrry

6.

What is the correct spelling of the word?

a)

pretentios

b)

pretentus

c)

pretensee

d)

pretentious

7.

What is the correct spelling of the word?

a)

brasen

b)

bracen

c)

brazen

d)

bracn

8.

What is the correct spelling of the word?

a)

ambivilent

b)

ambivlent

c)

ambivelent

d)

ambivalent

9.

What is the correct spelling of the word?

a)

incensedd

b)

incenseed

c)

incenced

d)

Incensed

10.

What is the correct spelling of the word?

a)

poignant

b)

poignat

c)

piognant

d)

pignat

11.

I'm ______________________ about my job: sometimes I love it and sometimes I hate it.

a)

patronizing

b)

ambivalent

c)

incensed

d)

unabashed

12.

I am an emergency room nurse, and my supervisor is a _____________________, condescending orge.

a)

wry

b)

pretentious

c)

incensed

d)

patronizing

13.

She is direct, a trait I appreciate, but sometimes she is more rude than she is _________________.

a)

wry

b)

patronizing

c)

forthright

d)

unabashed

14.

He was not ______________________ at all and cowered down in the corner.

a)

wry

b)

brazenly

c)

brazen

d)

ambivalent

15.

My mouth dropped open, and I stared at her _________________.

a)

brazen

b)

incredously

c)

incredulous

d)

forthright

16.

I was way beyond mad, so to keep my job (even though I was ___________________), I turned red and stormed out of the room.

a)

incensed

b)

wry

c)

poignant

d)

unabashed

17.

Golf is a sort of ____________________ sport because it is so expensive to play.

a)

pretentious

b)

wry

c)

crazy

d)

brazen

18.

Because of her ___________ smile, I could tell she was not genuine.

a)

wryly

b)

wry

c)

poignant

d)

ambivalently

19.

She finally spoke up and said in a pitiful voice, "It shocks me that you are _______________ about speaking this way in front of your teacher.

a)

ambivalent

b)

unabashed

c)

wryly

d)

forthright

20.

My friend was crying during a ________________ moment because she broke-up with her boyfriend of one year.

a)

wryly

b)

poignant

c)

incensed

d)

wry