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Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

to approach and speak; to first to confront.

(a)  

2.

A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval.

(a)  

3.

desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager.

(a)  

4.

having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink.

(a)  

5.

swiftness, rapidity of motion or action.

(a)  

6.

straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way.

(a)  

7.

in chess, an opening move that involves risk ro sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type

(a)  

8.

a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm; peaceful; happy; golden; prosperous; affluent.

(a)  

9.

pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical artificial; melodramatic.

(a)  

10.

deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberately sets fires; arsonist, one who causes strife.

(a)  

11.

a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction.

(a)  

12.

nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment.

(a)  

13.

open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized.

(a)  

14.

tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, deprecatory, belittling.

(a)  

15.

the state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable.

(a)  

16.

improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred.

(a)  

17.

without delay or formality; briefly, concisely.

(a)  

18.

asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor.

(a)  

19.

an object that serves as charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish.

(a)  

20.

To move waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wave-like appearance or form.

(a)