WorksheetsFreak the Mighty Vocabulary Chapters 1-7
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 36mins
In what sentence is the word unvanquished used correctly?
The color of the wall was fading and unvanquished.
Frieza remained unvanquished after his battle with Goku.
My family forgot me when I was seven, leaving me unvanquished at the mall.
I unvanquished my homework as soon as I got home.
Select all correct meanings for the word phony
Bogus
True
imposter
genuine
fake
Determine what fierce means by reading the following passage:
"So maybe he wasn't all that fierce in day care, except I'm pretty sure he did hit a kid with his crutch once, whacked the little brat pretty good."
Strong
Aggressive
Tiny
Weak
What is the best sentence using the word vacant?
I ate too many shrimp flautas and fell asleep in the middle of the day feeling vacant.
When we toured the house for sale it was vacant with no furniture.
I had to vacant the school right away as they were locking the gates in five minutes.
I expected the coral reef to be dead, but it was vacant with life as schools of fish swam past me.
What does the verb scuttle mean in the passage below?
"Okay, back to the down under, right? My room in the basement. Scuttle into your dim hole in the ground, Maxwell dear."
To dance
To cry
To shout
To move quickly
In the text Max states, "I go up the bulkhead stairs into the back yard and find a place where I can check it out."
What is the best definition for a bulkhead?
A spiral staircase
A set of stairs at the center of a building
A set of external doors leading to basement stairs
A set of porch stairs on the outside of a building
By reading the passage below, determine the meaning of the word postulate.
Freak grins and pushes back his yellow hair, and he goes, "Pardon my vocabulary. Sobriquet means 'nickname,' and demeanor means 'expression.' I merely postulated that you call your grandfather 'Grim' because he's grim. Postulate means--"
to lie
to suggest
to exaggerate
to praise
Choose all words that are synonyms for invincible.
Unbeatable
Conquered
Strong
Unbending
Vulnerable
By reading the passage below, determine what the opposite of fuming is:
"Boy does that make his eyes blaze. Like whoa! talk about laser beams! He's like fuming, so upset he can hardly talk."
Furiously angry
Enraged
Tranquil or calm
Greatly disturbed
Freak explains to Max, "Robotics, the science of designing and building functional robots, is a huge industry. There are thousands of robot units presently in use."
From the context of Freaks explanation which definition below is the best for the term industry?
A group of families with similar philosophies who hire a trained professional.
An individual trained to manufacture bespoke mechanisms for buyers.
A thrift store that specializes in second hand robots.
A group of businesses that make or sell similar products or perform similar services on a larger scale.
After reading the passage below, choose which answer best describes someone who is uneasy:
"Gram is uneasy. I can see her eyes flitting nervously around the room, like she's crossing the border into a really foreign country."
Content and relaxed
Jittery and excited
Anxious and jumpy
Curious and eager
Select all antonyms for offended
Hurt
Pleased
Insulted
Agitated
Gratified
Freak's mom explains to Max, "I remember it like it was yesterday. We were all of us living over in the tenements in those days, because the rent was so cheap and we were all just starting out."
Based on her explanation, what is the best definition for a tenement?
A large, old building divided into many small apartments.
A building of luxury condo apartments.
A single, three bedroom house with a backyard.
A climate-controlled storage space that people can rent.
What is the best sentence using the word regurgitate?
I was so happy I could regurgitate!
Etta could not speak the language, but she could regurgitate a few words that I had taught her in the past few weeks.
How could anyone regurgitate in anger?
The pen regurgitated with every click.
Which excerpt gives the best context for what a millpond is?
"I'm sort of running along the edge, crunching over the bottles and cans and candy wrappers,"
"More splashes as the rocks fall short. At first they're throwing stuff that's too heavy. Pretty soon they smarten up,"
"There's this great ugly sucking sound as my feet come back up out of the mud...the mud is up around my knees and it's real hard to turn around. Finally I get so I'm facing back at the shore..."
"I see what Freak has been seeing all along, a cop car cruising real slow along the road around the pond, which is what they always do after the fireworks."
When Max and Freak are watching the 4th of July fireworks Freak is shouting, "Potassium nitrate! Sulphur! Aluminum!" which are all examples of
Scientific elements
Pizza toppings
Insults
Prayers
When Freak and Max are stuck in the millpond, surrounded by Blade and his gang, Freak tells Max, "The cavalry is coming, can't you hear that bugle?"
What does he mean by the cavalry?
More bullies
Max and Freak's parents
The police
The fireworks display
As he is trying to flag down the police, "Freak has his fingers in his mouth and he's whistling. Real shrill and shivery and so loud it almost hurts my ears."
Which two sentences use the word shrill the best?
She was such a sweet old lady with a warm, shrill singing voice.
Every note of the mayor's shrill address to the public made my ears ring, almost worse than his microphone squeaking every two minutes.
The baby's bedtime playlist was so shrill she fell right asleep.
The carbon monoxide alarm went off in our trailer in the middle of the night and its shrill sound woke everyone immediately.
