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Word of the Day Review 1

Total questions: 61

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word means noisily or rowdy?

a)

boisterous

b)

despondent

c)

larcenous

d)

somber

2.

Which word goes with a novel idea or a new kind of fashion?

a)

apparition

b)

luminous

c)

newfangled

d)

noxious

3.

Which word means to babble?

a)

quell

b)

hanker

c)

egregious

d)

jabber

4.

Which definition matches the word cantankerous?

a)

cranky; hard to get along with

b)

gruesome and horrifying

c)

wasting time

d)

vague

5.

Which word best describes a broken piece of earthenware?

a)

aplomb

b)

concontion

c)

shard

d)

fluid

6.

What is the best definition for hullabaloo?

a)

quick and skillfull

b)

sly or clever

c)

terrifying or horrifying

d)

a commontion or fuss

7.

To vanish or disappear is the definition of which word?

a)

rapt

b)

foresight

c)

hubbub

d)

dissipate

8.

Someone who is good-natured or has a friendly disposition can be called____.

a)

outlandish

b)

egregious

c)

amiable

d)

tumultuous

9.

Lord Voldemort is Harry Potter's enemy or his ______.

a)

adversary

b)

exsaperation

c)

jargon

d)

conundrum

10.

Which word best matches the defintion--about to occur?

a)

impending

b)

rapt

c)

terse

d)

uncanny

11.

The best definition for utterly is which word?

a)

absolutely, totally

b)

dishonest, crooked

c)

slighlty salty

d)

serious or sad

12.

To dabble or to fix best goes with which word?

a)

wafting

b)

tinkering

c)

diminishing

d)

dilly dallying

13.

Someone who is dishonest or crooked can be considered to be ____.

a)

luminous

b)

larcenous

c)

ominous

d)

imbibed

14.

Many evil characters are ____, or overbearing or domineering.

a)

ransacking

b)

imperious

c)

headway

d)

jargon

15.

Which word best matches the definition: feeling or showing profound hoplessness or gloom?

a)

despondent

b)

terse

c)

balm

d)

teeter

16.

To search vigorously through something means you are __ it.

a)

hair-raising

b)

outlandish

c)

gusto

d)

ransacking

17.

A supernatural appearance of a person or a thing like a ghost or a phantom is known as an ___.

a)

apparition

b)

concoction

c)

exasperation

d)

jargon

18.

What is the best definition for hair-raising?

a)

raising rabbits

b)

terrifying or horrifying

c)

threatening

d)

concise

19.

Something that is macabre is thought to be ___.

a)

gruesome

b)

beautiful

c)

serious

d)

shining

20.

When you are so engossed in something, that means you are paying ____ attention to it.

a)

larcenous

b)

rambunctious

c)

deft

d)

rapt

21.

Which word means great enjoyment or zest?

a)

gusto

b)

foresight

c)

balm

d)

aplomb

22.

Ideas that are unconventional or strange are called ___.

a)

duplicitious

b)

brackish

c)

outlandish

d)

impending

23.

Dark, black clouds are often ominous or ___.

a)

a sign of trouble or danger

b)

giving off light

c)

gentle and calming

d)

deceitful

24.

What word best goes with something that is difficult to control or handle?

a)

rambunctious

b)

deft

c)

duplicitous

d)

larcenous

25.

Someone who is somber is ___.

a)

brief and to the point

b)

very serious or sad

c)

self-confident

d)

happy or elated

26.

What definition best matches the word egregious?

a)

well beyond the bounds of what is right or proper; outrageous

b)

the ability to imagine what is likely to happen in the future

c)

progress toward a destination or goal

d)

self-confidence, especially in a difficult situation

27.

Having self confidence or poise best matches which vocabulary term?

a)

cunning

b)

diminish

c)

waft

d)

aplomb

28.

Please make sure your answer is____, which means brief and to the point, concise.

a)

headway

b)

chockfull

c)

hubbub

d)

terse

29.

Which word best matches the definition: the aility to imagine what is likely to happen in the future?

a)

hanker

b)

foresight

c)

newfangled

d)

muster

30.

To be cunning means that you are _____.

a)

clever

b)

somber

c)

concise

d)

shining

31.

Which definition best matches the word jargon?

a)

a loud confused noise

b)

to disperse

c)

to calm

d)

the specialized language of trade or profession

32.

Which definition best matches the word deft?

a)

slightly salty

b)

adroit; quick and skillful

c)

to spend or use wastefully

d)

to waste time

33.

Without reasoning, your answer cn be considered __ or difficult to understand.

a)

obscure

b)

hullabaloo

c)

hubbub

d)

dilly dally

34.

Which word means slightly salty?

a)

balm

b)

brandish

c)

brackish

d)

boisterous

35.

The definition to cause something to disappear or to drive away best matches which word?

a)

dilly dally

b)

duplicitious

c)

deft

d)

dispel

36.

What is the definition of quell?

a)

to drive away

b)

to calm or settle

c)

to float easily and gently on the air

d)

to dabble

37.

Which definition matches the word headway?

a)

a mixture of ingredients

b)

a state of anger

c)

progress toward a goal or destintation

d)

a salve

38.

A loud confused noise is known as a ___.

a)

hubbub

b)

conconction

c)

apparition

d)

gusto

39.

Sometimes on injuries, a __ (an oily, fragrant resinous substance with medical value) is used.

a)

balm

b)

brackish

c)

aplomb

d)

brandish

40.

Wizards might __ a wand, which means they might wave it around in a dramatic or threatening way.

a)

luminous

b)

brandish

c)

diminish

d)

macabre

41.

If you listen secreatly to a private conversation your will be ____.

a)

dilly dallying

b)

wafting

c)

hair-raising

d)

eavesdropping

42.

Something that is repugnant is ____.

a)

offensive or repulsive

b)

arousing wonder and fear

c)

reducing or decreasing

d)

fixing or dabbling

43.

Which definition best matches the word waft?

a)

to drift or float easily and gently on the air

b)

to bring forth a feeling or ability from within oneself

c)

to eavesdrop

d)

to calm

44.

When someone is in a state of anger or has great irritation they are ____.

a)

uncanny

b)

luminous

c)

noxious

d)

exsaperated

45.

What do you call a mixture of ingredients?

a)

an aplomp

b)

a hullabaloo

c)

a concotion

d)

a shard

46.

What is the best definition for muster?

a)

to bring forth a feeling or ability from within oneself

b)

to listen secretly to a conversation

c)

to talk rapidly

d)

to dabble with or fix something

47.

Which word best matches the definition: arousing wonder and fear or mysterious or impossible to explain?

a)

obscure

b)

tumultuous

c)

utterly

d)

uncanny

48.

To make something smaller or less means that it is ____.

a)

teetering

b)

diminished

c)

jabbering

d)

straggled

49.

Something that gives off light or is shining is ___.

a)

luminous

b)

bosterous

c)

tumultuous

d)

ominous

50.

When you move unsteadily, like when walking on a tightrope, you are said to be _____.

a)

imbibing

b)

straggling

c)

teetering

d)

glowing

51.

I have a ____, or a desire, for a hot fudge sundae.

a)

dilly dallying

b)

hullabaloo

c)

hubbub

d)

hankering

52.

To spend or use something extravagantly or wastefully means that you are _____ it.

a)

jabbering

b)

squandering

c)

tinkering

d)

eavesdropping

53.

Dancers movements in ballet are __, meaning their moves flow easily.

a)

fluid

b)

noxious

c)

despondent

d)

gusto

54.

What word matches the defintion: something that is loosely made or held together?

a)

impending

b)

ramshackle

c)

imperious

d)

rapt

55.

Which definition best matches the word straggle?

a)

full of tumult or riotousness

b)

about to occur

c)

to play around

d)

to stray from the road, course, or line of march

56.

Lying is considered to be deceitful or ___.

a)

dilly dally

b)

dimish

c)

despondent

d)

duplicitous

57.

The word ___ best goes with the definition marked by a disturbance or an uproar; full of riotousness

a)

luminous

b)

tumultuous

c)

larcenous

d)

noxious

58.

Something that is noxious is defined as ___.

a)

toxic

b)

crooked

c)

sad

d)

cranky

59.

Which word best matches the definition to absorb?

a)

imbibe

b)

dissipate

c)

ransack

d)

waft

60.

It is important that you do not _____, or waste time, when working on your activities for book club.

a)

hanker

b)

imbibed

c)

dilly dally

d)

tinker

61.

This game was filled to overflowing, or ___ of vocabulary terms.

a)

chockfull

b)

ransack

c)

jabbering

d)

hullabaloo