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FEBRUARY VOCABULARY CHALLENGE 2022

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

to make a deep hole or cut in the surface of something

a)

cut

b)

gouge

c)

hit

d)

destroy

2.

feeling that you have had enough or too much of something, especially food or pleasure

a)

suited

b)

sadded

c)

sated

d)

sitted

3.
a)

viguer

b)

revive

c)

vigur

d)

vigour

4.

 to behave or speak in a weak complaining way, especially when you are crying

a)

sniwel

b)

sniwell

c)

snivel

d)

swim well

5.

to try to make someone angry or upset by saying unkind things to them

a)

taunt

b)

tount

c)

teunt

d)

tuant

6.

lasting for only a short time

a)

fleeting

b)

fleeing

c)

flaying

d)

flitting

7.

a deep crack, especially in rock or earth

a)

freesure

b)

fissure

c)

fisser

d)

freesur

8.

a piece of speech in which someone talks about a subject in an entertaining way that does not seem planned

a)

drift

b)

ruff

c)

rif

d)

riff

9.

something that is ... does not last very long

a)

weary

b)

vast

c)

evanescent

d)

eagerness

10.

one of the ten rules given by God in the Bible that tell people how they must behave

a)

disciple

b)

comma

c)

commander

d)

commandment

11.

small animals, birds, and insects that are harmful because they destroy crops, spoil food, and spread disease

a)

vermin

b)

vermount

c)

wermin

d)

vermean

12.

having a very powerful effect or influence on your body or mind

a)

potent

b)

prudent

c)

private

d)

dizzy

13.

to die, especially in a terrible or sudden way

a)

parish

b)

perish

c)

peerish

d)

pourish

14.
a)

felicitous

b)

felocitues

c)

fellocitous

d)

filecitous

15.

not working or producing anything

a)

yielded

b)

vermin

c)

idle

d)

lazy

16.

to move very quickly and lightly, like a small animal

a)

skitter

b)

run

c)

jog

d)

turn

17.

showing signs of worry, anger etc and not relaxed

a)

thought

b)

taut

c)

taught

d)

tought

18.

a sloping edge or surface, usually along the edge of a piece of wood or glass

a)

slope

b)

edgy

c)

tool

d)

bevel

19.

extremely worried and frightened about a situation, so that you cannot control your feelings

a)

rush

b)

franctic

c)

frantic

d)

franky

20.

to defend yourself against someone who is attacking you

a)

search

b)

deal

c)

offend

d)

fend sb off

21.

something on a computer that lets you change from one operation to another

a)

underline

b)

toggle

c)

to google

d)

rack

22.

to turn around quickly and face a different direction, or to make something do this

a)

swivel

b)

toggle

c)

fitted

d)

silver

23.

to confuse and surprise people by being unexpected

a)

swivel

b)

confound

c)

opposite

d)

toggle

24.

a small amount of something that you put onto a surface

a)

dabb

b)

dub

c)

doubt

d)

dab

25.

to decay gradually

a)

mould

b)

dab

c)

moulder

d)

swivel

26.

to keep thinking about something that you are worried or upset about

a)

depress

b)

worry

c)

brood

d)

permit

27.

... conditions, situations etc are not good

a)

brood

b)

unfavourable

c)

spelling

d)

instead

28.

if something ..., or if heat or cold ... it, it becomes bent or twisted, and loses its original shape

a)

blend

b)

steal

c)

brood

d)

warp

29.

to send out a large amount of smoke, flames etc, or to come out of something in large amounts

a)

swivel

b)

brood

c)

warp

d)

belch

30.

having a thin hard dry layer on the surface

a)

crusted

b)

warped

c)

brooded

d)

pondered

31.

a very small round mass of a liquid or sticky substance

a)

blob

b)

bob

c)

bolb

d)

bulb

32.

because someone has asked for something or ordered something to happen

a)

in the behest of sth

b)

at the behest of sb

c)

on the behest of sb

d)

at the behest on sb

33.

a young member of a famous or important family

a)

scion

b)

son

c)

behest

d)

blob

34.

if an animal ..., it eats anything that it can find

a)

warps

b)

blobs

c)

scavenges

d)

broods

35.

an act of stealing something very valuable from a shop, bank etc

a)

heist

b)

warps

c)

blob

d)

scavenge

36.

a small part of something that remains after the rest of it has been used, destroyed, or eaten

a)

remnant

b)

scavange

c)

heist

d)

brood

37.

a terrible and unexpected event that causes a lot of damage or suffering

a)

heist

b)

calamity

c)

warp

d)

remnant

38.

so determined to get what you want that you do not care if you have to hurt other people in order to do it

a)

warp

b)

blob

c)

ruthless

d)

heist

39.

secret and known or understood by only a few people

a)

calamity

b)

pitiless

c)

ruthless

d)

arcane

40.

a room with thick walls and a strong door where money, jewels etc are kept to prevent them from being stolen or damaged

a)

heist

b)

blob

c)

scavenge

d)

vault

41.

surprisingly large or impressive

a)

stupendous

b)

calamity

c)

vault

d)

remnant

42.

to make something weaker or destroy it, especially someone’s strength or their determination to do something

a)

sap

b)

sup

c)

sep

d)

sip

43.

impossible to change or stop

a)

irrevocable

b)

sap

c)

brood

d)

warp

44.

not transparent, but clear enough to allow light to pass through

a)

translucent

b)

brittle

c)

stupendous

d)

arcane

45.

hard but easily broken

a)

translucent

b)

brittle

c)

hapless

d)

caustic

46.

doing something without anyone else with you

a)

mired

b)

fetid

c)

brittle

d)

solitary

47.

having a strong bad smell

a)

solitary

b)

arcane

c)

fetid

d)

caustic

48.

become drier and smaller and start to die

a)

wither

b)

frail

c)

rue

d)

beset

49.

food that people or animals need in order to live

a)

stash

b)

emanate

c)

flicker

d)

sustenance

50.

coming into existence or starting to develop

a)

wither

b)

brittle

c)

nascent

d)

fetid