WorksheetsHoles Vocabulary Review
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 31mins
deserted; barren; lifeless
Premises
Scarcity
Excavated
Desolate
imperfect or faulty
Defective
Appropriate
Despicable
Scarcity
Fill in the blank:
The bus was _________ and uncomfortable as Stanley travelled to Camp Green Lake.
REFRESHING
STIFLING
REMARKABLE
VENTILATED
Fill in the blank:
The _______ was gone, replaced by sudden strength and energy.
agony
accelerate
drawl
blotchy
In which sentence is the word AGONY used correctly?
Two months after the accident, she was completely better and always in agony.
I was in constant agony every time I sat next to her, she would just not stop talking about her toys, it was so boring!
You need to use an agony to get rid of the pain in your leg.
He let out an agony and started running away from the huge spider in his room.
Choose the correct definition for the word REFUGE
A tool with a long handle and two or three large curved metal points
A place that gives protection or shelter from danger
Having officially been found guilty of a crime in a law court.
Things that are considered to be of no use or value, or of low quality
Which word best completes the following sentence?
My mom thinks the neighbors are ___________________ when they let their dog poop in our yard and don't even bother to clean it up!
defiance
callused
desolate
despicable
Which word best completes the following sentence?
I find it interesting how the usually jam-packed Chick-fil-a parking lot is ________________ on Sundays.
despicable
desolate
vast
defiance
Which word best completes the following sentence?
The patient with severe burn wounds told her doctors that she was in extreme _____________ and begged them to help her.
vile
callused
agony
rummaging
Refuge is
a shelter from danger or hardship
a twist or turn
to learn by heart
foggy and unclear
barren
haze
wasteland
descendent
"He looked again at the design (a) into the flat bottom of the tube. He could see an outline of a heart, with the letters KB etched inside."
Which of the following words is NOT a synonym for the word "desolate?"
lonely
solitary
vacant
outrageous
deserted
Check all the synonyms for the word "refuge."
shelter
definite
sanctuary
overhanging
resting place
"Delirious" means:
jutting out
put into jail
paranoid or irrational fear and distrust of other
wandering of the mind or hallucinating
Check all the synonyms for the word "engraved"
sketched
colored on
etched
carved
Delirious
calm
crazy
frightened
startled
The street was completely _______________ which made Emma even more scared to take the shortcut home.
convicted
eternity
desolate
appreciate
I dropped my phone in the toilet and now it is ______________. My mum was furious with me!
expression
hesitate
defective
curse
desolate
exceptionally great concentration, power, or force, acuteness, anxiety, deepness, depth, earnestness, emotion, emphasis, intenseness, keenness, magnitude, might
steady persistence, insistence, determination, dedication, commitment, endurance
so devoid of wisdom or good sense as to be laughable, absurd, crazy, excessive, extreme, far out, foolish, harebrained, insane, irrational, laughable, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, outrageous, ridiculous, senseless, silly, stupid, unreasonable, unthinkable, wacky
devoid of inhabitants; deserted, abandoned, bare, empty, godforsaken, isolated, lonely, solitary, uninhabited, unoccupied, unused, vacant, wild
to put out (a tenant, for example) by legal process; expel, throw out, remove, dislodge, put out, eject
engraved
carved, cut out, or etched into a material, blocked out, depicted, etched, marked out, sketched
exceptionally great concentration, power, or force, acuteness, anxiety, deepness, depth, earnestness, emotion, emphasis, intenseness, keenness, magnitude, might
so devoid of wisdom or good sense as to be laughable, absurd, crazy, excessive, extreme, far out, foolish, harebrained, insane, irrational, laughable, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, outrageous, ridiculous, senseless, silly, stupid, unreasonable, unthinkable, wacky
exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others, unglued, unhinged, unsettled, schizophrenic
devoid of inhabitants; deserted, abandoned, bare, empty, godforsaken, isolated, lonely, solitary, uninhabited, unoccupied, unused, vacant, wild
4. Choose the word that matches the following definition:
disgusting, distasteful, wrong
desolate
vast
despicable
defiance
5. Choose the word that matches the following definition:
barren and deserted. empty
preposterous
vast
despicable
desolate
20. Choose the word that matches the following definition:
extreme pain
forlorn
writhing
callused
agony
engraved
causing pain
mental condition
shine, glitter
cut or carve on the surface of a hard object
haze
achieve or complete successfully
surprising welcome
a slight obscuration of the lower atmosphere
sudden discovery
Camp Green Lake was a (a) place with no water for 100 miles.
Their initials were (a) into the tree trunk.
Stanley and Zero were headed to God's Thumb to find (a) .
Stanley didn't believe Zero because he thought he was (a) .
despicable
farming equipment used to cut furrows into the soil
sad, abandoned, and lonely
deserving of hatred or contempt
defective
imperfect; faulty
faucet; controls the flow of liquid
a little bit warm
During times of war, many people leave their country to find a ________ from the fighting.
civilization
refuge
abandonment
substance
What does the underlined word in the sentence below mean?
The refrigerator was defective, so the family got a new one.
old
not working the way it should
very costly
meant for only 1 person
What does the underlined word in the sentence below mean?
He engraved his name into the table he made.
told everyone about
sold
felt happy about
carved
What does the underlined word in the sentence below mean?
What the man did was despicable, so he was sentenced to life in jail.
disgusting
innocent of the crime
boring
without fear
Which word makes sense in the sentence below?
To make the gift more special, Olivia had the necklace ___________ with her initials.
engraved
barren
defective
despicable
Which word makes sense in the sentence below?
Since the washing machine was _____________, it was returned to the store.
barren
engraved
defective
despicable
Suffocating
defective
penetrating
agony
stifling
carved into a hard surface
engraved
evict
desolate
perseverance
barren and deserted
defective
authority
agony
desolate
extreme pain
grotesque
despicable
evict
agony
Having a flaw
evict
despicable
defective
desolate
The vocabulary word (a) means a safe place or home.
Check all the boxes that use the word fidgeted in a sentence correctly.
The boy fidgeted in his chair before the teacher handed back his test.
My sister had a fidgeted that my dad gave her for her birthday.
The child fidgeted in the waiting room at the dentist.
My brother thinks that when school starts again, he will fidgeted the whole time in class.
Choose the correct term:
to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently
rummaging
fidgeted
protruding
tedious
