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Vocabulary #3 Quizizz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Adept means

a)

to adjust to the situation

b)

to bring in as a family member

c)

skilled

d)

to skip

2.

Verbose means

a)

wordy

b)

huge

c)

complicated

d)

excessively tall

3.

Cacophony means

a)

a chicken noise

b)

discordant sound

c)

very loud laughter

d)

difficult to understand

4.

Truculent means

a)

delicious; decadent

b)

great in distance

c)

unusual

d)

aggressive; bad-tempered

5.

Didactic means

a)

difficult to understand

b)

morally instructive

c)

loud and disturbing

d)

wise

6.

Teeming means

a)

choosing sides

b)

smiling broadly

c)

abundant

d)

loud and disturbing

7.

Indomitable means

a)

too strong to be defeated

b)

unable to traverse

c)

difficult to understand

d)

a little bit crazy

8.

Petulant means

a)

smooth and soft

b)

loud

c)

irritable

d)

scary

9.

Polemical means

a)

controversial

b)

cylindrical

c)

tall and stately

d)

mathematical

10.

Sage means

a)

dangerous

b)

fragrant

c)

green

d)

wise

11.

We had to return the _____ dog to the shelter because he kept biting people

a)

sage

b)

truculent

c)

adept

d)

verbose

12.

We appreciated the ____ advice that my grandma gave us before we got married.

a)

polemical

b)

petulant

c)

truculent

d)

sage

13.

The ____ child needed a snack and a nap.

a)

petulant

b)

adept

c)

teeming

d)

didactic

14.

We learned a lot of moral lessons from reading a_______ book like The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.

a)

truculent

b)

teeming

c)

didactic

d)

scary

15.

We were glad the pilot was _____ at landing a plane during the thunderstorm.

a)

polemical

b)

truculent

c)

adept

d)

didactic

16.

We became bored after listening to the _______ speaker for nearly two hours.

a)

adept

b)

verbose

c)

quiet

d)

captivating

17.

When we looked at the pond water under the microscope, we saw that it was _____ with life!

a)

teeming

b)

devoid

c)

truculent

d)

verbose

18.

I couldn't believe he would bring up such a _____ conversation topic the first time he met me!

a)

nonsensical

b)

embarrassing

c)

teeming

d)

polemical

19.

Achilles was strong and everyone thought he was _____, but, in fact, he was defeated by an arrow to his heel.

a)

sage

b)

didactic

c)

all that and a bag of chips

d)

indomitable

20.

It was hard to hear the conversation amid the _____ of everyone talking in the crowded lunch room.

a)

cacophony

b)

petulant

c)

verbose

d)

truculence