WorksheetsRadium Girls Vocab.
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
jaunty means:
cool and formal manner
having a cheerful, lively air
injurious to physical or mental health
easily irritated
______ means to take great pleasure. If you _____ in something, you're not just pleased or even excited; you're overwhelmed by joy.
taper
abrasive
revel
devise
Painful ____ sprouted in the holes left behind, hurting Mollie even more than the teeth had.
ulcers
revels
abrasives
tonics
Now, opponents must devise plans to stop Greene and his fellow back Thomas Jones, who continued another career season with a touchdown Saturday.
Devise means -
make public or official
come up with after mental effort
control and direct
secure an exclusive right to publish
His legs were short, wiry, with stiff and swollen joints, probably owing to ________.
arrogance
rheumatism
asthma
pneumonia
Her parents looked shell-shocked, ______
forensic
nautical
stricken
timely
Deep in the dark pocket of the scientist, the radium broke through the gloom with an unending, eerie glow. “These gleamings,” Marie wrote of its ____ effect, “stirred us with ever-new emotion and enchantment.”
jaunty
luminous
tonic
frivolous
a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
abscess
ulcer
sheen
anemic
A yellowed hue is often prized over the original pearly sheen.
Sheen means -
drape
luster
gilt
frill
Emma silently nestled against Charles's shoulder; then, raising her chin, she watched the ________ rays of the rockets against the dark sky.
luminous
marine
antique
marine
The arts that were viewed so highly in Imre were seen as ____ by those at the University.
luminous
frivolous
jaunty
abrasive
But now all the girls remaining—the jokers and the quiet ones, the _____and the unconcerned—sat still for the photographer.
frivolous
rheumatism
anemic
conscientious
The violence was particularly shocking because the protests coincided with Ashura, a solemn day in the Shia calendar that commemorates the martyrdom of Hosein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.
Solemn means -
broad in scope or content
dignified and somber in manner or character
devoting full attention to
characterized by broad-mindedness
Indeed, one of the points of the series — not for the first time in Allen’s writing — is that trouble can be tonic: "It just gets the adrenaline going, doesn't it?"
Tonic means -
stimulating
incalculable
insufferable
complicated
Boron also produces a unique ________ red glow under ultraviolet light.
authoritarian
inexpugnable
unxceptional
phosphorescent
