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Vocabulary for "I Have a Dream" speech

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Bankrupt

a)

certainly; surely; with firm belief

b)

to thrive, to grow well, blossom

c)

unable to pay debts

d)

to fail to meet an obligation, especially a financial one

2.

Defaulted

a)

to fail to meet an obligation, especially a financial one

b)

unable to pay debts

c)

to break down; to deteriorate

d)

Unhappy; displeased; miserable.

3.

Manacles

a)

achieving wealth or financial success

b)

to fail to keep a promise to repay a loan

c)

chains to bind someone’s hands or ankles

d)

to suffer from being forced to stay in an unpleasant situation

4.

Languish

a)

to decline morally

b)

to fail to keep a promise to repay a loan

c)

to suffer from being forced to stay in an unpleasant situation

d)

unhappy; lonely

5.

Inextricably

a)

in a way that’s impossible to untangle

b)

to tangle in knots

c)

a light that serves as a guide

d)

causing freedom or salvation

6.

to shrivel; fade; decay

a)

withering

b)

insufficient

c)

persecution

d)

prosperity

7.

The act of treating people cruelly because of their religion or beliefs

a)

persecution

b)

hallowed

c)

languished

d)

five score

8.

Great in quantity, size, or extent

a)

withering

b)

manacles

c)

prodigious

d)

vast

9.

Reasonable; able to be defended by logic

a)

beacon

b)

legitimate

c)

insufficient

d)

inextricably

10.

Inseparable; impossible to disentangled

a)

manacles

b)

prodigious

c)

gradualism

d)

inextricably

11.

regarded as holy; venerated; sacred

a)

hallowed

b)

manacles

c)

inextricably

d)

insufficient

12.

Prosperity

a)

to fail to keep a promise to repay a loan

b)

to suffer from being forced to stay in an unpleasant situation

c)

to fail to keep a promise to repay a loan

d)

achieving wealth or financial success

13.

Degenerate

a)

a person who isn’t Jewish

b)

to decline morally

c)

in a way that’s impossible to untangle

d)

causing freedom or salvation

14.

exile

a)

extreme tiredness

b)

taking slow, measured action

c)

to banish or send away

15.

What does RIGHTEOUSNESS mean?

a)

the quality of being morally right or justifiable

b)

deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness

c)

fail to fulfill an obligation, especially to repay a loan or to appear in a court of law

d)

acting to save someone from error or evil

16.

What does DISCORDS mean?

a)

disagreement; difference of opinion

b)

uncomfortably hot

c)

a cause of great trouble or suffering

d)

interference or intervention

17.

Segregation means...

a)

a poor densely populated city district

b)

the act of keeping apart

c)

shackle that can be locked around the wrist

d)

imparting strength and vitality

18.

Fill in the blank... "I have a dream that one day event he state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of ________________________ , will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

a)

prosperity

b)

redemptive

c)

oppression

d)

tribulations

19.

Tribulations means

a)

elevated

b)

redemptive

c)

great trouble or misery

d)

prosperity

20.

I have a dream that every valley shall be ______________, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight."

a)

hallowed

b)

tribulations

c)

exalted

d)

oppression

21.

to shrivel; fade; decay

a)

withering

b)

insufficient

c)

persecution

d)

prosperity

22.

a political idea that an individual enters into society with certain basic rights and that no government can deny these rights

a)

Inalienable Rights

b)

Bill of Rights

c)

Constitution

d)

Limited Government

23.

Unfair treatment based on a prejudice

a)

steerage

b)

discrimination

c)

amnesty

d)

conspiracy