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Tuesdays With Morrie: Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 36mins

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Class
Date
1.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


I felt __________, as reporters often do, and I began to think that a tape machine between two people who were supposedly friends was a foreign object, an artificial ear.

a)

atrophied

b)

intrusive

c)

insatiable

d)

stout

2.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


With all the people ___________ for his time, perhaps I was trying to take too much away from these Tuesdays.

a)

alienation

b)

cynical

c)

insidious

d)

clamoring

3.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


So, I said, in a reflexively __________ response, I guess the key to finding the meaning of life is to stop taking out the garbage?

a)

cynical

b)

insidious

c)

intrusive

d)

insatiable

4.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


One of the helpers, a __________ Italian woman named Connie, cut up bread and tomatoes and brought containers of chicken salad, hummus, and tabouli.

a)

cynical

b)

stout

c)

insidious

d)

humility

5.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


The sports appetite in that city was ___________ —they had professional teams in football, basketball, baseball, and hockey—and it matched my ambition.

a)

clamoring

b)

cynical

c)

insatiable

d)

stout

6.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


His pants were loose because his legs had ___________ beyond normal clothing size

a)

atrophied

b)

humility

c)

insidious

d)

clamoring

7.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


Ted asked about the _________ that death induced. “Well, Fred,” Morrie said accidentally, then he quickly corrected himself. “I mean Ted … “ “Now that’s inducing _________,” Koppel said, laughing.

a)

insidious

b)

alienation

c)

cynical

d)

humility

8.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


He tells me I need to be “fully human.” He speaks of the ___________ of youth and the need for “connectedness” with the society around me.

a)

humility

b)

clamoring

c)

alienation

d)

insatiable

9.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


“Sometimes, in the mornings,” he said. "I mourn the slow, ___________ way in which I’m dying. But then I stop mourning.”

a)

insidious

b)

insatiable

c)

cynical

d)

intrusive

10.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


I had gone from being proud to say my age—because of all I had done so young—to not bringing it up, for fear I was getting too close to forty and, therefore, professional ___________.

a)

ambivalence

b)

oblivion

c)

revel

d)

teeming

11.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


Boston was __________ with students, double-parked on side streets, unloading trunks.

a)

lilting

b)

lamented

c)

teeming

d)

indecipherable

12.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


He was a religious mutt, which made him even more open to the students he taught over the years. And the things he was saying in his final months on earth seemed to __________ all religious differences.

a)

transcend

b)

oblivion

c)

revel

d)

solidarity

13.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


I rang the bell and was greeted not by Connie but by Morrie’s wife, Charlotte, a beautiful gray-haired woman who spoke in a _________ voice.

a)

ambivalence

b)

revel

c)

lamented

d)

lilting

14.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


“Mitch, it is impossible for the old not to envy the young. But the issue is to accept who you are and _________ in that. This is your time to be in your thirties."

a)

oblivion

b)

revel

c)

solidarity

d)

lamented

15.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


Back in Detroit, the newspaper strikers were gearing up for a huge holiday demonstration, to show the ___________ of unions against management.

a)

oblivion

b)

teeming

c)

ambivalence

d)

solidarity

16.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


Before I arrived, Morrie had scribbled a few notes on small white pieces of paper so that he wouldn’t forget. His shaky handwriting was now ___________ to everyone but him.

a)

transcend

b)

ambivalence

c)

indecipherable

d)

lamented

17.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


He studied my face, and perhaps he saw an ____________ about my own choices.

a)

oblivion

b)

lilting

c)

ambivalence

d)

solidarity

18.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate word:


In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie’s time even as I __________ its diminishing supply.

a)

transcend

b)

lamented

c)

indecipherable

d)

teeming

19.

Which of the following is a synonym for insatiable?

a)

satisfied

b)

ravenous

c)

fulfilled

d)

eating

20.

Which of the following is an antonym for humility?

a)

shy

b)

bashful

c)

pride

d)

humiliation

21.

Which of the following is a synonym for stout?

a)

portly

b)

short

c)

skinny

d)

frail

22.

Which of the following is an antonym for alienation?

a)

isolation

b)

extraterrestrial

c)

earth-bound

d)

acceptance

23.

Which of the following is a synonym for atrophy?

a)

improve

b)

trophy

c)

deteriorate

d)

stabilize

24.

Which of the following is an antonym for cynical?

a)

optimistic

b)

whimsical

c)

skeptical

d)

doubtful

25.

Which of the following is a synonym for insidious?

a)

limited

b)

straightforward

c)

stealthy

d)

satanic

26.

Which of the following is an antonym for intrusive?

a)

non-invasive

b)

invasive

c)

rude

d)

polite

27.

Which of the following is a synonym for clamor?

a)

explode

b)

whisper

c)

deafening

d)

shout

28.

Which of the following is a synonym for lament?

a)

celebrate

b)

mourn

c)

lame

d)

sniffle

29.

Which of the following is an antonym for ambivalence?

a)

certainty

b)

hesitation

c)

confused

d)

all-knowing

30.

Which of the following is a synonym for indecipherable?

a)

clear

b)

written

c)

illegible

d)

rushed

31.

Which of the following is an antonym for solidarity?

a)

divisiveness

b)

harmony

c)

solid

d)

anonymous

32.

Which of the following is a synonym for transcend?

a)

ascend

b)

transfer

c)

surrender

d)

exceed

33.

Which of the following is an antonym for teem?

a)

overflow

b)

group

c)

lack

d)

opponent

34.

Which of the following is a synonym for lilting?

a)

musical

b)

irregular

c)

crooked

d)

soiled

35.

Which of the following is an antonym for revel?

a)

rebel

b)

celebrate

c)

grieve

d)

fight

36.

Which of the following is a synonym for oblivion?

a)

presence

b)

extinction

c)

absent-minded

d)

oblivious