Synonyms
tentative contract
Choices:
1. provisional
2. extended
3. long-term
4. well-paid
provisional
She walked warily toward her job.
OPTIONS:
1. slowly
2. recklessly
3. pointedly
3. cautiously
recklessly
Our assignment for Monday is to memorize the first twenty-four lines of the Prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in Middle English, which we will have to recite _____.
OPTIONS: warily; verbatim; heedlessly; slowly
verbatim
able to use both hands equally well
ambidextrous
easily bent, flexible
pliable
respond to their gibe
OPTIONS:
1. invitation
2. ridicule
3. opinion
4. idea
ridicule
a verbatim record
OPTIONS:
1. paraphrased
2. precise
3. doctored
4. misrepresented
paraphrased
In the book The Little Princess, the heroine is forced by circumstances to leave her _____ home, move to a cold garret, and wear the rough clothing of a servant.
OPTIONS: opulent; unkempt; verbatim; pliable
opulent
to say again, repeat
reiterate
cautiously, with great care
warily
adding too much sugar would adulterate the coffee
OPTIONS:
1. sip
2. contaminate
3. refuse
4. request
contaminate
an insidious movement
OPTIONS:
1. sneaky
2. ingenuous
3. exciting
4. clumsy
ingenuous
When the protagonist in the novel Silas Marner begins caring for a young girl, he changes from a(n) _____, gloomy man to someone with a genial outlook.
OPTIONS: ambidextrous; insidious; opulent; dour
dour
a hint, indirect suggestion
intimation
to stare with open mouth
gape
deploy the players
OPTIONS:
1. fire
2. hustle
3. station
4. ignore
station
understandably bereft
OPTIONS:
1. well-provided
2. lonely
3. unaffected
4. unhappy
well-provided
The farmer had always admired the _____ his father had shown during the huge flood; a lesser man would not have had the courage to spend hours in the raging river struggling to save the livestock.
OPTIONS: guise; intimation; fortitude; gibe
fortitude
not easily moved mentally or emotionally
stolid
intended to deceive entrap
insidious
augment his earnings
OPTIONS:
1. supplement
2. supply
3. squander
4. spend
supplement
A stolid lieutenant in the armed forces.
OPTIONS:
1. boring
2. lenient
3. furious
4. oversensitive
oversensitive
The clerk, who had not had the time to wash or shave, was embarrassed by his _____ appearance.
OPTIONS: verbatim; dour; ambidextrous; unkempt
unkempt
to utter taunting words
gibe
deprived of
bereft
Florida's name comes from 'La Florida'. What does it translate to in Spanish?
'Flowery Land' or 'Land of Flowers'.
What are the 5 boroughs (parts) of NYC?
Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island.
What is the largest lake in the state of Florida?
Lake Okeechobee.
What is the famous name for matches between Barcelona and Real Madrid?
El Clásico
Who famously played for Real Madrid from 2009 to 2018?
Cristiano Ronaldo (7)
HINT Explained: Vocabulary word #7 is fortitude which is the same number as Ronaldo's jersey.