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Refugee Vocabulary Set 1 (10 words)

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"She walked on the ______________ by the beach and found Lito in the crowd." Which word means walkway.

a)

Reel

b)

Queue

c)

Promenade

d)

Ethereal

2.

"The afternoon adhan from the nearby mosque echoed through the bombed out streets, the _____________ voice of the mu'adhdin praising Allah and calling everyone to prayer"

Which word means heavenly or otherworldly?

a)

Ethereal

b)

Squalid

c)

Reel

d)

Perversion

3.

Mahmoud watched as the two boys attacked the boy with the bread. He felt strings of ________________, of anger, of sympathy.

Which word means anger caused by something unfair or wrong?

a)

Waning

b)

Queue

c)

Fraught

d)

Indignation

4.

"A man with a bloody head staggered past Isabel. She _______ in horror!"

Which word means to pull back?

a)

Fraught

b)

Reeled

c)

Waning

d)

Squalid

5.

"They watched as Aaron Landau ran for the ramp, where other passengers had already ____________ up to hand in their tickets to a smiling man in a sailor's uniform"

Which word means to line up?

a)

Queued

b)

Promenade

c)

Ethereal

d)

Anecdote

6.

"It was night and the ______________ moon peeked out from behind scattered clouds."

Which word means the moon appears to become less full?

a)

Squalid

b)

Anecdote

c)

Waning

d)

Reel

7.

"Daesh thought they were fighting the final war, and anyone who didn't agree with their twisted _________________ of Islam were infidels who should have their heads cut off."

Which word means that something good was made to be something bad?

a)

Fraught

b)

Perversion

c)

Queue

d)

Waning

8.

"What would have been a happy occasion in the Landau home was now ________________ with anxiety, thanks to his father's paranoia.

Which word means full of something bad or unwanted?

a)

Reel

b)

Squalid

c)

Promenade

d)

Fraught

9.

"Castro rambled on without a script, quoting novels and telling personal _____________ about the Revolution."

Which word means a short story about a funny event?

a)

Anecdotes

b)

Reel

c)

Fraught

d)

Ethereal

10.

"If he were a Turkish border guard, he wouldn't have let in any of these dirty _____________ people, himself included."

Which word means very dirty and unpleasant?

a)

Perversion

b)

Squalid

c)

Ethereal

d)

Reel