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TGC Vocabulary

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Ostentatiously

a)

providing no shelter or sustenance

b)

wet through and through; thoroughly wet

c)

marked by complexity and richness in detail

d)

in a manner intended to attract notice and impress others

2.

When the alleged perpetrator was questioned about the crime, he became ______________ and angrily tried to change the subject.

a)

Translucent

b)

Evasive

c)

Feeble

d)

Forlorn

3.

I thought I ordered blackout curtains for the bedroom, but the material was so light, it was nearly ___________________.

a)

Raucous

b)

Ornate

c)

Translucent

d)

Mediocre

4.

The _______________ required to construct the robot for Physics class involved a level of creativity I did not possess.

a)

Ingenuity

b)

Mirage

c)

Hoist

d)

Vagrant

5.

The family had many expensive, _____________ keepsakes around their Victorian home.

a)

Evasive

b)

Forlorn

c)

Addled

d)

Ornate

6.

The normally talkative preschooler became shy and _______________ on his first day of school.

a)

Tentative

b)

Malicious

c)

Raucous

d)

Ingenious

7.

I never would have expected such daring, __________________ behavior from Ben, who is normally so well behaved and careful.

a)

Malicious

b)

Addled

c)

Evasive

d)

Audacious

8.

Tom, who had been a strong bodybuilder in his youth, had become old and _______________ as time passed.

a)

Malicious

b)

Feeble

c)

Evasive

d)

Audacious

9.

The little boy decided to pilfer chocolate from the candy jar.


Pilfer means __________.

a)

hide

b)

steal

c)

swallow

d)

give back

10.

Which picture shows a character who is forlorn?

a)
b)
c)
11.

If you are nonchalant when doing your homework, it means that you _________________

a)

don't really care if you get it done or not

b)

care a lot about the grade you get on it

c)

work hard on it

d)

hand it in early

12.

A person who lives in destitute living conditions might look like this:

a)
b)
c)
d)
13.

Surrounded by sky scrapers, the three story apartment building looked diminutive.


Which word means the same as the underlined word above?

a)

ugly

b)

small

c)

beautiful

d)

weird

14.

enormous and luxurious; like a palace

a)

shiftless

b)

palatial

c)

ominous

d)

genuflected

15.

An uneasy feeling.

a)

Ruddy

b)

Tentative

c)

Ornate

d)

Qualms