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A Sound of Thunder Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

To return something is to...

a)

Engulf

b)

Revoke

c)

Bisect

d)

Remit

2.

What is phlegm?

a)

fussy, especially about details

b)

rebounding readily

c)

having existed from the beginning

d)

saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages

3.

What does it mean to envelop?

a)

Something to put a letter in and mail

b)

enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering

c)

having great beauty and splendor

d)

a tax imposed on ships that enter the US

4.

If someone is finnicky, what are they?

a)

fussy, especially about details

b)

rebounding readily

c)

exist in a changeless situation

d)

grope, scratch, or feel searchingly

5.

What does it mean to be expendable?

a)

below the threshold of conscious perception

b)

immeasurably small

c)

bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation

d)

worth sacrificing

6.

If something is infinitesimal, it is...

a)

pitching dangerously to one side

b)

immeasurably small

c)

bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation

d)

fail to work properly

7.

If something does not return to form quickly, this would be considered resilient.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

If something is stagnant, what must it be?

a)

working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

b)

enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass

c)

a business authorized to sell a company's goods or services

d)

exist in a changeless situation

9.

Dinosaurs are considered ________________.

a)

Stagnate

b)

Infinitesimal

c)

Primeval

d)

Finicky

10.

For something to be in retrograde, it must be...

a)

Running

b)

Standing still

c)

Moving backwards

d)

Walking very slowly

11.

If the waves are undulating, they must be doing what action?

a)

Climbing somewhere

b)

Falling down messily

c)

Rolling or moving up and down

d)

Moving from side to side in a zigzag

12.

If you are cutting something in three ways, you are bisecting it.

a)

False

b)

True

13.

If an area is teeming with plant life, it means...

a)

The area has very little plants in it

b)

There are only a few, select types of plants in the area

c)

The area is overflowing with plants

d)

There are no plants at all in this area.

14.

If you have your membership to a place revoked, what has happened to it?

a)

You have had your membership taken away

b)

You are not allowed to get your membership back ever.

c)

You have had your membership returned to you

d)

You need to pay the company.

15.

The word subtle means...

a)

grope, scratch, or feel searchingly

b)

imbalance among the parts of something

c)

pitching dangerously to one side

d)

working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

16.
Depression
a)
cancel; withdraw
b)
return payment.
c)
able to return to its original shape quickly after being stretched or compressed; elastic.
d)
major economic downturn. 
17.

Subliminal most likely means...?

a)
worth sacrificing to gain an objective.
b)

major economic downturn. 

c)
something that has or seems to have contradictory qualities.
d)
below the level of awareness.
18.

A paradox is...?

a)
extreme mental disturbance, often accompanied by hallucinations (seeing things that are not there).
b)
something that has or seems to have contradictory qualities.
c)
cancel; withdraw.
d)
destroy; wipe out.