WorksheetsThe Gift of the Magi Vocab Quiz
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which definition best matches the word imputation in the following sentence: Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.
Extreme stinginess
The attribution to a source or cause
Concerned with principles of right and wrong
Provide with objects or articles that make a room usable
What image best matches the definition for the word singed in the following sentence: And then Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, “Oh, oh!”
Which vocabulary word matches the following definition: provoke or stir up.
Instigates
Thereunto
Sterling
Laboriously
Which definition best matches the word predominating in the following sentence: Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
Wear off or die down
Be larger in number, quantity, power, status, or importance
Provide with objects or articles that make a room usable
Highest in quality
Determine the definition and the context clue that helps you to find the meaning of sterling in the following sentence: Something fine and rare and sterling--something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.
Definition: Highest in quality | Clue: Punctuation
Definition: Lackluster in appearance | Clue: Cause and Effect
Definition: Lackluster in appearance | Clue: Contrast or Antonym
Definition: Highest in quality | Clue: Comparison
What is the best synonym for parsimony as it is used in the following sentence: Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.
Extravagance
Stinginess
Poverty
Generosity
What image best matches the definition for the word flat in the following sentence: While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week.
Which vocabulary word matches the following definition: Police who arrested beggars and homeless people.
Vestibule
Setter
Mendicancy Squad
Patent
What image best matches the definition for the word vestibule in the following sentence: In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.
What is the best synonym for thereunto as it is used in the following sentence: Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."
To that
Below
On top
None of the above
Determine the definition and the context clue that helps you to find the meaning of depreciate in the following sentence: Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty’s jewels and gifts.
Definition: Decline in value | Clue: Punctuation
Definition: Increase in value | Clue: Cause and effect
Definition: Decline in value | Clue: Cause and effect
Definition: Increase in value | Clue: Example
Determine the definition and the context clue that helps you to find the meaning of laboriously in the following sentence: “You’ve cut off your hair?” asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at the patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor.
Definition: In a way that takes considerable time and effort | Clue: Example
Definition: In a way that is effortless and unimportant | Clue: Punctuation
Definition: In a way that is effortless and unimportant | Clue: Example
Definition: In a way that takes considerable time and effort | Clue: Punctuation
Which vocabulary word matches the following definition: a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention.
Ardent
Sterling
Imputation
Patent
What is the best antonym for ardent as it is used in the following sentence: The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.
Characterized by intense emotion
Enthusiastic or passionate
Unsentimental and cold
Angry and frustrated
What image best matches the definition for the word setter in the following sentence: Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail.
What is the best antonym for meretricious as it is used in the following sentence: It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation-as all good things should so.
Sincere, tasteful in appearance
Attractive but having no value or integrity
Tastelessly showy
Flashy
What definition best matches beggar description in the following sentence: It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had the word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
Defy or outdo any possible description
Provoke or stir up
An explanation or description that is vague
Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity
