WorksheetsQuarter 1 Text-Based Vocabulary Review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
Match the following vocabulary words from "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou and "Some Advice to Those Who Will Spend Time in Prison" by Nazim Hikmet to their context clues.
current
"floats downstream"
trill
"and his tune is heard"
flurry
"a leaf moves
What does the word spasmodic mean? Use it in an example sentence.
Match the following vocabulary words from "The Nuclear Tourist" by George Johnson to their context clues.
macabre
"the remains of a broken stroller"
eerily
"sites of unimaginable disaster"
specter
"nuclear meltdown
tableaux
"dolls sprawling . . . gas masks hanging"
Match the following vocabulary words from "The Writing on the Wall" by Camille Dungy to their context clues.
memento
"an expression of the torment which fills my belly"
composed
"carefully crafted"
etched
"written on"
What does the word camaraderie mean? Use it in a sentence.
Match the following vocabulary words from "The Roaring Twenties" by Mike Kubic to their context clues.
unfettered
"reveled in the high jinks"
moniker
"the roaring twenties"
ratification
"at long last, the right to vote"
What does the word assiduous mean? Use it in a sentence.
Match the following vocabulary words from "To Build a Fire" by Jack London and "Roughing It: Lost in the Snow" by Mark Twain to their context clues.
excrutiating
"faint tingling grew stronger . . . into a stinging ache"
apathetic
"the fire provider had failed"
lurid
"peculiarly venomous opinion"
placid
"blood that had been asleep for an hour"
What does the word successive mean? Use it in a sentence.
What does the word implication mean? Use it in a sentence.
