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Giggles Vocabulary Weeks 17-18

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the meaning of surreptitiously?

a)

secret; avoid notice and attention

b)

high-pitched; piercing

c)

area of expertise

d)

foreboding

2.

What is the meaning of perilously?

a)

secret

b)

backside

c)

dangerously; risky

d)

piercing

3.

What is the meaning of posterior?

a)

area of expertise

b)

in the middle of

c)

foreboding

d)

backside or rear

4.

What does garb mean?

a)

clothing

b)

face

c)

strong, fierce anger

d)

backside

5.

What does shrilled mean?

a)

loaded down

b)

high pitched; piercing

c)

weep or cry with sniffling and whining

d)

deceitful

6.

What does compounded mean?

a)

strong, fierce anger

b)

threatening

c)

clothing

d)

make something bad or worse

7.

What is the meaning of gyrate?

a)

dance in wild or suggestive manner

b)

threatening

c)

dangerous

d)

to take all of the water out of

8.

What does bailiwick mean?

a)

making something bad or worse

b)

surrounded by

c)

skilled at gaining advantage

d)

area of expertise

9.

What does laden mean?

a)

burdened; loaded down

b)

in the middle of

c)

clothing

d)

outstandingly bad

10.

What does amid mean?

a)

compounded

b)

in the middle of; surrounded by

c)

threatening

d)

attractive

11.

What is the meaning of visage?

a)

strong, fierce anger

b)

face

c)

area of expertise

d)

clothing

12.

What does wailed mean?

a)

backside

b)

utter a prolonged mournful cry in grief or suffering

c)

shrilled

d)

attractive

13.

What is the meaning of the word wrath?

a)

strong, fierce anger

b)

face

c)

foreboding

d)

deceitful

14.

What does sniveled mean?

a)

risky

b)

piercing

c)

weep or cry with sniffling and whining

d)

dance is a wild manner

15.

What does ominous mean?

a)

foreboding or threatening

b)

burdened; loaded down

c)

risky

d)

deceitful

16.

What does wily mean?

a)

loaded down; burdened

b)

high pitched; piercing

c)

skilled at gaining an advantage; deceitful

d)

clothing

17.

What does egregious mean?

a)

outstandingly bad; shocking

b)

attractive

c)

strong, fierce anger

d)

risky

18.

What is decolletage?

a)

outstandingly bad; shocking

b)

comely

c)

a kind of artwork

d)

the neckline of a dress cut low in the front or back and often across the shoulder

19.

What is the definition of comely?

a)

pleasing in appearance; attractive

b)

homely

c)

outstandingly bad

d)

face

20.

When the scouts were hiking, they came _________ close to the edge of the cliff.

a)

comely

b)

perilously

c)

wily

d)

surreptitiously

21.

The student entered the class ______________ after the bell rang.

a)

wily

b)

garb

c)

surreptitiously

d)

gyrate

22.

Dalbert moved his hands down Petra's back until they rested perilously close to her _______________.

a)

anger

b)

posterior

c)

visage

d)

gyrate

23.

Wearing a maroon, black, gray, or white sweatshirt to Bailey is appropriate _______ for showing school spirit.

a)

garb

b)

posterior

c)

decolletage

d)

bailiwick

24.

" I want ice cream now!" _______ the toddler.

a)

amid

b)

shrilled

c)

gyrate

d)

laden

25.

The students began to _______ to the music.

a)

ominous

b)

gyrate

c)

visage

d)

wrath

26.

When the soccer player went to PE at school and the PE teacher announced they were going to play soccer today in class, his friend said "This is your _________!"

a)

posterior

b)

bailiwick

c)

garb

d)

wily

27.

The two students further ______________ their guilt by ignoring Ms. Grammar Grouch and continuing to gyrate to the music.

a)

wailed

b)

laden

c)

sniveled

d)

compounded

28.

When Mrs. Wunder came into the school building she was ______ with a backpack, lunchbox, big heavy bag, and a purse.

a)

amid

b)

compounded

c)

laden

d)

visage

29.

She tripped and fell down _________ the wild flowers on the hill.

a)

wrath

b)

amid

c)

visage

d)

perilously

30.

The Kowalski's worked alongside Ross and his second wife, Jame, to build an artistic empire that includes paint and brushes bearing Ross' name and ________.

a)

wrath

b)

garb

c)

visage

d)

posterior

31.

At the funeral the widow _______ next the casket that contained her deceased husband.

a)

visage

b)

wailed

c)

sniveled

d)

compounded

32.

The boys earned their parents' ______ when one boy threw a matchbox car at the other, who ducked, and the car hit and destroyed the screen of the brand new TV.

a)

amid

b)

wrath

c)

garb

d)

visage

33.

"Things like this don't happen to me!" she ___________ as she was walked to the office to phone her parents.

a)

comely

b)

sniveled

c)

compounded

d)

ominous

34.

The _______________ clouds and dark sky made everyone think it was going to rain.

a)

comely

b)

surreptitiously

c)

garb

d)

ominous

35.

Viruses are ________, seeking out and infecting vulnerable hosts

a)

comely

b)

wily

c)

pelchritudinous

d)

shrilled

36.

He made an _______________ error when he decided to cheat on the test.

a)

comley

b)

egregious

c)

sniveled

d)

shrilled

37.

The __________ was not appropriate in a garment worn for a school dance.

a)

bailiwick

b)

wily

c)

wrath

d)

decolletage

38.

The _______princess was surrounded by many suitors who found her to be pulchritudinous.

a)

ominous

b)

comely

c)

visage

d)

wily