WorksheetsRefugee Vocab #2 (Words 11-20))
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 26mins
"The water first, ' Lito agreed, and together they began the tedious work of filling them and pouring the seawater back into the ocean" Tedious means...
Pretending
Yelling at in an angry way
Boring, slow work
A short break from hard work
"That was no kind of medical inspection. The entire business was charade. A giant waste of time." Charade means.....?
A giant waste of time
Pretending something is true, when it is not
Something that is sure to happen
To make someone feel better when they are sad
Josef followed the small group of kids through the doorway onto the bridge of the St. Louis. The bridge was a narrow, curving room that stretched from one side of the ship to the other. What does Bridge mean?
Causing doubt
Giant, large and powerful
House or home
The place on a ship where the ship is steered.
Shiendick and his men surged forward to avenge the insult, but Captain Schroeder quickly intervened. What does intervened mean?
To make someone feel better
To become involved in order to have an influence on what happens
Causing doubt
boring and slow
They had missed the huge ship's prow by mere meters, but the waves the behemoth created as it passed were just as dangerous. What does behemoth mean?
Something very big and powerful
A home or house
Not logical or well organized
Something sure to happen
The boy lifted the broken chain link fence that led to a parking lot. "here" he said. Mahmoud's father gave the rest of his family a dubious look and led them under the fence. What does dubious mean?
Unclean, very dirty
To wait in line
Causing doubt or suspicion
To pretend something is real
The passengers on the St. Louis had grown more and more restless, cornering sailors on deck and berating their stewards at dinner.
What does berate mean?
A short time of rest
A house or home
To yell at someone in a loud angry way
Something boring or too slow
He rose again, pushing air out his nose, but he was tired. So very, very tired. He wished for a respite from swimming, just a moment to sit without working his arms and legs.
What does respite mean?
A house or home
Something large and powerful
To wait in line
A short period of rest, a break
"She is safe now, " Mahmoud told her. "Hana is out of the water. She is going to live." But Mahmoud's mother would not be consoled.
What does console mean?
To yell at in a loud angry way
To pretend something is real
To make someone feel less sadness
The place on a ship where the ship is steered
Give him an abode better than his home, and a family better than his family, and a wife better than his wife. What does abode mean?
To pull back
To line up
To cause doubt
A house or home
BONUS: What is a promenade?
A line
A walkway
A boat
A house
BONUS: What does reel mean?
To line up
To fall back suddenly
To pretend
To rest
BONUS: What does fraught mean?
Something that changes it from good to bad
Very dirty
Full of something bad or unwanted
To become less full
