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Radium Girls Vocab.

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

jaunty means:

a)

cool and formal manner

b)

having a cheerful, lively air

c)

injurious to physical or mental health

d)

easily irritated

2.

______ means to take great pleasure. If you _____ in something, you're not just pleased or even excited; you're overwhelmed by joy.

a)

taper

b)

abrasive

c)

revel

d)

devise

3.

Painful ____ sprouted in the holes left behind, hurting Mollie even more than the teeth had.

a)

ulcers

b)

revels

c)

abrasives

d)

tonics

4.

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 -

a)

make public or official

b)

come up with after mental effort

c)

control and direct

d)

secure an exclusive right to publish

5.

His legs were short, wiry, with stiff and swollen joints, probably owing to ________.

a)

arrogance

b)

rheumatism

c)

asthma

d)

pneumonia

6.

Her parents looked shell-shocked, ______

a)

forensic

b)

nautical

c)

stricken

d)

timely

7.

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.”

a)

jaunty

b)

luminous

c)

tonic

d)

frivolous

8.

a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue

a)

abscess

b)

ulcer

c)

sheen

d)

anemic

9.

A yellowed hue is often prized over the original pearly sheen.

Sheen means -

a)

drape

b)

luster

c)

gilt

d)

frill

10.

Emma silently nestled against Charles's shoulder; then, raising her chin, she watched the ________ rays of the rockets against the dark sky.

a)

luminous

b)

marine

c)

antique

d)

marine

11.

The arts that were viewed so highly in Imre were seen as ____ by those at the University.

a)

luminous

b)

frivolous

c)

jaunty

d)

abrasive

12.

But now all the girls remaining—the jokers and the quiet ones, the _____and the unconcerned—sat still for the photographer.

a)

frivolous

b)

rheumatism

c)

anemic

d)

conscientious

13.

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 -

a)

broad in scope or content

b)

dignified and somber in manner or character

c)

devoting full attention to

d)

characterized by broad-mindedness

14.

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 -

a)

stimulating

b)

incalculable

c)

insufferable

d)

complicated

15.

Boron also produces a unique ________ red glow under ultraviolet light.

a)

authoritarian

b)

inexpugnable

c)

unxceptional

d)

phosphorescent