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Watson's Go to Birmingham - 1963 Vocabulary in Context

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Instead of trying to intimidate your young brother, you would _____ him and use that mind of yours, perhaps you'd find things much easier.

a)

generate

b)

numb

c)

emulate

d)

hypnotize

2.

Byron had just turned 13 so he was officially a teenage juvenile _____ and didn't think it was "cool" to touch anybody or to let anyone touch him even if it meant he froze to death.

a)

emulate

b)

generate

c)

numb

d)

delinquent

3.

All my family sat real close together on the couch under the blanket. Dad said this would ______ heat to keep us warm.

a)

emulate

b)

generare

c)

delinquent

d)

desperate

4.

There has been an increase in ______ delinquency.

a)

orbiting

b)

hypnotized

c)

punctual

d)

juvenile

5.

It was a good thing my face was _____ from the cold already, or I might have frozen to death.

a)

generate

b)

emulate

c)

punctual

d)

numb

6.

Every other time someone was late he'd just laugh at them and tell the rest of us. "This is the only way you little punks is gonna learn to be ______."

a)

delinquent

b)

punctual

c)

desperate

d)

juvenile

7.

This guy was real _____ for a friend because even though I wouldn't say much back to him he kept jabbering away at me all through class.

a)

desperate

b)

delinquent

c)

numb

d)

juvenile

8.

The little boy with him had to be his little brother, he looked like a shrunk-up _____ of the big one.

a)

hypnotize

b)

punctual

c)

version

d)

delinquent

9.

Joey looked like she was _____. Her mouth was open and her eye were bugging.

a)

emulate

b)

hypnotized

c)

version

d)

punctual

10.

He kept going round and round me. I bet we looked like the solar system with me being the sun and Byron be the ______ Earth

a)

orbiting

b)

hypnotizing

c)

generating

d)

numbing