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ELA 4 Vocabulary Lesson 4

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

(a)   an account of the origin and descent of the gods

2.

(a)   marked by impatiences or ill humor

3.

(a)   a spiritual meeting to receive spirit communications

4.

(a)   to deliberately sink or attempt to sink a ship or boat.

5.

(a)   loss of or damage to reputation caused by actual or apparent violation of morality or propriety; indignation, chagrin, or bewilderment brought about by a flagrant violation of morality, propriety, or religious opinion.

6.

Protuberant means thrusting out from a surrounding or adjacent surface often as a roundness or precedence

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Protocol means dull, unimaginative; everyday, ordinary.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Prosaic means stingy, relating to great poverty.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Meager means lacking in quality or quantity.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Mawkish means excessively and objectionably sentimental; having a mildly sickening flavor.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

not easily governed, manipulated, relieved, or cured.

a)

clandestine

b)

intractability

c)

guise

d)

clemency

12.

tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived.

a)

clandestine

b)

clemency

c)

guise

d)

gulibility

13.

an external appearance, cover, mask

a)

clandestine

b)

guise

c)

devour

d)

intractability

14.

move out of an unsafe location into safety.

a)

evacuate

b)

asylum

c)

mawkish

d)

guise

15.

to eat up greedily

a)

clemency

b)

guise

c)

clandestine

d)

devour

16.

(a)   means mercy; lenience.

17.

(a)   means secret; marked by or conducted with secrecy.

18.

(a)   a reappearance of an earlier characteristic; throwback.

19.

(a)   a place of retreat or security.

20.

(a)   stingy, relating to great poverty.