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English II - Level One Vocab

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster is known as a...

a)

Refugee

b)

Citizen

c)

Migrant

d)

Immigrant

2.

The human heart has a ______________ of about 8 to 12 ounces. While that is how much blood it can hold, we know that the heart also has the _______________ to love, break, and feel things.

a)

capacity

b)

density

c)

volume

d)

propensity

3.

The car was ____________ with hundreds of clothes, boxes, and everything else Jenna owned, as she travelled across the country.

a)

laden

b)

barren

c)

brazen

d)

lofty

4.

The streets of New York City were _____________ after the towers fell on September 11th. Smoke, dust, paper, and ash fell from the sky as sirens sounded and people ran for their lives.

a)

chaotic

b)

impervious

c)

saturated

d)

paroxysm

5.

The violent overthrow of a government by a small group is known as a _____________

a)

coup

b)

risqué

c)

faux-pas

d)

cliché

6.

The old house ________ memories of his childhood, and the photographs _______ a feeling of loss and regret.

a)

evoked

b)

stifled

c)

implied

d)

revolted

7.

What the speaker said really __________ with me.

a)

resonated

b)

palpitated

c)

emaciated

d)

indicated

8.

"Value yourself for who you are," is a wise _________.

a)

adage

b)

parable

c)

allegory

d)

fable

9.

A club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar is known as a __________

a)

pestle

b)

abacus

c)

transistor

d)

quill

10.

Captain Hook slide his sword back inside its...

a)

scabbard

b)

newton

c)

sheath

d)

holster

11.

To disable, disfigure, or cripple

a)

maim

b)

truncate

c)

ornament

d)

veracity

12.

"Let the Hunger Games __________!"

a)

commence

b)

saunter

c)

gravitate

d)

lurch

13.

Without a witness, the police could not prove that the _______ was anything more than fiction.

a)

hearsay

b)

provocation

c)

implication

d)

innuendo

14.

What is the best meaning of the word "indelible"?

a)

not able to be removed

b)

able to be removed

c)

implying that someone is lying

d)

implying that someone is being truthful

15.

floating debris

a)

flotsam

b)

waste

c)

rubbish

d)

groak