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WorksheetsTuesdays With Morrie: Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 36mins
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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.
atrophied
intrusive
insatiable
stout
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With all the people ___________ for his time, perhaps I was trying to take too much away from these Tuesdays.
alienation
cynical
insidious
clamoring
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So, I said, in a reflexively __________ response, I guess the key to finding the meaning of life is to stop taking out the garbage?
cynical
insidious
intrusive
insatiable
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One of the helpers, a __________ Italian woman named Connie, cut up bread and tomatoes and brought containers of chicken salad, hummus, and tabouli.
cynical
stout
insidious
humility
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The sports appetite in that city was ___________ —they had professional teams in football, basketball, baseball, and hockey—and it matched my ambition.
clamoring
cynical
insatiable
stout
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His pants were loose because his legs had ___________ beyond normal clothing size
atrophied
humility
insidious
clamoring
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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.
insidious
alienation
cynical
humility
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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.
humility
clamoring
alienation
insatiable
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“Sometimes, in the mornings,” he said. "I mourn the slow, ___________ way in which I’m dying. But then I stop mourning.”
insidious
insatiable
cynical
intrusive
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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 ___________.
ambivalence
oblivion
revel
teeming
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Boston was __________ with students, double-parked on side streets, unloading trunks.
lilting
lamented
teeming
indecipherable
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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.
transcend
oblivion
revel
solidarity
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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.
ambivalence
revel
lamented
lilting
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“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."
oblivion
revel
solidarity
lamented
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Back in Detroit, the newspaper strikers were gearing up for a huge holiday demonstration, to show the ___________ of unions against management.
oblivion
teeming
ambivalence
solidarity
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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.
transcend
ambivalence
indecipherable
lamented
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He studied my face, and perhaps he saw an ____________ about my own choices.
oblivion
lilting
ambivalence
solidarity
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In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie’s time even as I __________ its diminishing supply.
transcend
lamented
indecipherable
teeming
Which of the following is a synonym for insatiable?
satisfied
ravenous
fulfilled
eating
Which of the following is an antonym for humility?
shy
bashful
pride
humiliation
Which of the following is a synonym for stout?
portly
short
skinny
frail
Which of the following is an antonym for alienation?
isolation
extraterrestrial
earth-bound
acceptance
Which of the following is a synonym for atrophy?
improve
trophy
deteriorate
stabilize
Which of the following is an antonym for cynical?
optimistic
whimsical
skeptical
doubtful
Which of the following is a synonym for insidious?
limited
straightforward
stealthy
satanic
Which of the following is an antonym for intrusive?
non-invasive
invasive
rude
polite
Which of the following is a synonym for clamor?
explode
whisper
deafening
shout
Which of the following is a synonym for lament?
celebrate
mourn
lame
sniffle
Which of the following is an antonym for ambivalence?
certainty
hesitation
confused
all-knowing
Which of the following is a synonym for indecipherable?
clear
written
illegible
rushed
Which of the following is an antonym for solidarity?
divisiveness
harmony
solid
anonymous
Which of the following is a synonym for transcend?
ascend
transfer
surrender
exceed
Which of the following is an antonym for teem?
overflow
group
lack
opponent
Which of the following is a synonym for lilting?
musical
irregular
crooked
soiled
Which of the following is an antonym for revel?
rebel
celebrate
grieve
fight
Which of the following is a synonym for oblivion?
presence
extinction
absent-minded
oblivious
