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A Sound of Thunder Vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What word means to shake or tremble

a)

merest

b)

quaver

c)

phlegm

d)

graft

2.

Thick mucus that is usually coughed up during a cold or other respiratory infection.

a)

teeming

b)

disproportion

c)

graft

d)

phlegm

3.

Paper made out of the skin of an animal during ancient times.

a)

parchment

b)

phlegm

c)

graft

d)

delirium

4.

Brightly colored bands of light, visible around Earth’s geomagnetic poles, caused by solar wind interacting with particles in Earth’s magnetic field. (Northern Lights)

a)

dictatorship

b)

aurora

c)

annihilate

d)

paradox

5.

Smallest or slightest amount

a)

militarist

b)

revoke

c)

annihilate

d)

merest

6.

Government where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else.

a)

dictatorship

b)

militarist

c)

Finicky

d)

cavernous

7.

Graft means what?

a)

Mismatch; to make out of proportion; no longer in balance

b)

practices, especially bribery, used to secure dishonest gains in politics or business; corruption.

c)

a statement or event that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true

8.

If someone is Finicky they do what?

a)

destroy their enemy

b)

Walk carefully as they are weak

c)

show or require great attention to detail

d)

pass out from lack of blood to the brain

9.

What word means to "Destroy or completely wipe out"

a)

paradox

b)

annihilate

c)

delirium

d)

bisect

10.

Completely full, especially with living things.

a)

delirium

b)

stanating

c)

teeming

d)

subliminal

11.

a person who believes that a country should maintain a strong military capability

a)

militarist

b)

Finicky

c)

Quaver

d)

Parchment

12.

Something that is immeasurably or extremely small is this

a)

paradox

b)

ifinitesimal

c)

boulderstone

d)

subliminal

13.

Mismatch; to make out of proportion; no longer in balance

a)

Pterodactyls

b)

delirium

c)

Resilient

d)

disproportion

14.

a statement or event that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true

a)

paradox

b)

disproportion

c)

stagnating

d)

subliminal

15.

Flying reptiles from the late Jurassic eras.

a)

buzzards

b)

Bisects

c)

pterodactyls

d)

boulderstones

16.

Porous,and filled with tiny blood vessels.

a)

teeming

b)

quaver

c)

cavernous

d)

phlegm

17.

A mental state in which the person or animal is confused and has reduced awareness of their surroundings.

a)

resilient

b)

finicky

c)

delirium

d)

aurora

18.

Stagnating means what?

a)

Ceasing to flow or move;

b)

Recall or take back

c)

Showing or requiring great attention to detail.

19.

recall or take back

a)

revoke

b)

cavernous

c)

graft

d)

quaver

20.

Existing or happening below the threshold of consciousness

a)

merest

b)

resilient

c)

teeming

d)

subliminal