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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Vocab #3

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"with an infinite sadness of mien, like some ________ prisoner".

a)

amiss

b)

disconsolate

c)

disinterred

2.

"A ______came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering."

a)

ferocity

b)

calamity

c)

lamentation

d)

qualm

3.

“Sir,” said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled _______, “that thing was not my master, and there's the truth.

a)

pallor

b)

baize

c)

eddy

d)

qualm

4.

"...of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables _______ with chemical apparatus..."

a)

disenterred

b)

laden

c)

traversed

d)

amiss

5.

“One moment. I thank you, sir;” and the clerk laid the two sheets of paper alongside and ________ compared their contents.

a)

sedulously

b)

disinterred

c)

abject

6.

Utterson, "borne in upon his mind a crushing anticipation of ______"

a)

ferocity

b)

disconsolate

c)

calamity

7.

"But the words were hardly uttered before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such ________ terror and despair,as froze the the very blood of the two gentlemen below."

a)

abject

b)

pious

c)

laden

d)

traversed

8.

"At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with

red _______"

a)

draughts

b)

pallor

c)

baize

d)

abject

9.

"Hold your tongue!" Poole said to her, with a ______ of accent that testified to his own jangled nerves;"

a)

calamity

b)

ferocity

c)

pallor

d)

lamentation

10.

"...and indeed, when the girl had so suddenly raised the note of her ________,  they had all started and turned towards the inner door with faces of dreadful expectation.

a)

eddy

b)

baize

c)

draughts

d)

lamentation

11.

"He looked at Poole, and then back at the paper, and last of all at the dead _________stretched upon the carpet."

a)

draughts

b)

malefactor

c)

eddy

d)

calamity

12.

"... lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the _______ of the scandal."

a)

malefactor

b)

eddy

c)

ferocity

d)

calamity

13.

"There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a ______work, for which Jekyll had several 

a)

diaphanous

b)

pious

c)

abject

14.

"The wind, which only broke in puffs and _______ into that deep well of building, tossed the light."

a)

draughts

b)

baize

c)

pallor

15.

"Poole ________ the axe from under a stack of packing straw; the candle was set upon the nearest table to light them to the attack;"

a)

traversed

b)

disinterred

c)

amiss

d)

laden