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WorksheetsDrums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie Vocab (Dangerous Pie Chpt 1)
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 14mins
What is the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence?
I guess that’s why I was being asphyxiated by her perfume.
surprised
intoxicated
surrounded
suffocated
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Wow, that’s an ambitious topic!
having a strong want/need for success or power.
needing to gather a lot of information.
having a tendency to be lazy
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Having any brother would be horrible, I suppose, but having my particular brother, Jeffrey, is an unrelenting nightmare.
obedient
agreeable; easy to stop
determined; non-stop.
spineless; weak
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Pots and pans were everywhere— don’t ask me how I had somehow not noticed this on my way downstairs the first time—and Jeffrey was stirring some pretend concoction in the deepest pot of all.
reproduction of a common item
things randomly mixed together
ingredient used in cooking
baked good
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Yet still, I knew I would never have time to run across town to the local zoo, steal an elephant tranquilizer gun, run back, and fire it into Jeffrey’s buttock before he could blurt out something that would mortify me and destroy my social status forever.
impress
give pride
scare
humiliate
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I tried to end this torment.
extreme pain or anxiety
pleasure
happiness
depression
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Miss Palma gave me an A on the journal entry—she called it “droll."
humorless
serious
humorous
depressing
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Hundreds of colored balloons are tethered down behind me, baking in the June sun.
attached with a rope
free to float
unbound
loose and movable
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This fiasco happened after my All-City High School Jazz Band concert last June.
huge success
opportunity for improvement
good fortune
ridiculous failure
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Well, I’m having trouble crafting my prose.
verse for singing
spoken or written language
shed for tools
piece of artwork
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And while he’s being much too cute and following me around, he also destroys all of my stuff, including my self-esteem and my sanity.
dishonor
attitude
pride
disgrace
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And while he’s being much too cute and following me around, he also destroys all of my stuff, including my self-esteem and my sanity.
right to eat dinner
sense of madness
inability to think clearly
healthy mental abilities
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Take, for example, the “Dangerous Pie” incident.
intention
something that happens
law
non-occurrence
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I advanced toward him, with what must have been a disturbing gleam of violence in my eye.
faint or brief light
dullness
gloominess
extremely bright twinkle
