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The Gift of the Magi Vocab Quiz

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

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Class
Date
1.

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.

a)

Extreme stinginess

b)

The attribution to a source or cause

c)

Concerned with principles of right and wrong

d)

Provide with objects or articles that make a room usable

2.

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!”

a)
b)
c)
d)
3.

Which vocabulary word matches the following definition: provoke or stir up.

a)

Instigates

b)

Thereunto

c)

Sterling

d)

Laboriously

4.

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.

a)

Wear off or die down

b)

Be larger in number, quantity, power, status, or importance

c)

Provide with objects or articles that make a room usable

d)

Highest in quality

5.

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.

a)

Definition: Highest in quality | Clue: Punctuation

b)

Definition: Lackluster in appearance | Clue: Cause and Effect

c)

Definition: Lackluster in appearance | Clue: Contrast or Antonym

d)

Definition: Highest in quality | Clue: Comparison

6.

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.

a)

Extravagance

b)

Stinginess

c)

Poverty

d)

Generosity

7.

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.

a)
b)
c)
d)
8.

Which vocabulary word matches the following definition: Police who arrested beggars and homeless people.

a)

Vestibule

b)

Setter

c)

Mendicancy Squad

d)

Patent

9.

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.

a)
b)
c)
d)
10.

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."

a)

To that

b)

Below

c)

On top

d)

None of the above

11.

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.

a)

Definition: Decline in value | Clue: Punctuation

b)

Definition: Increase in value | Clue: Cause and effect

c)

Definition: Decline in value | Clue: Cause and effect

d)

Definition: Increase in value | Clue: Example

12.

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.

a)

Definition: In a way that takes considerable time and effort | Clue: Example

b)

Definition: In a way that is effortless and unimportant | Clue: Punctuation

c)

Definition: In a way that is effortless and unimportant | Clue: Example

d)

Definition: In a way that takes considerable time and effort | Clue: Punctuation

13.

Which vocabulary word matches the following definition: a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention.

a)

Ardent

b)

Sterling

c)

Imputation

d)

Patent

14.

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.

a)

Characterized by intense emotion

b)

Enthusiastic or passionate

c)

Unsentimental and cold

d)

Angry and frustrated

15.

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.

a)
b)
c)
d)
16.

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.

a)

Sincere, tasteful in appearance

b)

Attractive but having no value or integrity

c)

Tastelessly showy

d)

Flashy

17.

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.

a)

Defy or outdo any possible description

b)

Provoke or stir up

c)

An explanation or description that is vague

d)

Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity