Tell Me What You Mean
Battered
Damaged by blows or hard usage.
To burn superficially or lightly.
Singe
The four travelers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him.
They were thinking about the gift Oz would give them.
And if he is the lovely Lady, I shall pretend to spring upon her, and so ________ her to do my bidding.
A) Bestow
B) Compel
C) Gnash
B) Compel
Cunning
Marked by skill in deception.
To be in fortunate circumstances financially.
Prosperous
"What shall we do?" asked Dorothy despairingly.
Dorothy wants to know what they will do because they are in a position of desperation.
"I always did like flowers," said the Lion. "They seem so helpless and __________.
A) Heedless
B) Idle
C) Frail
C) Frail
Frail
Easily broken or damaged or destroyed.
Unusually great in size or amount or extent or scope.
Immense
"Only a mouse!" cried the little animal, indignantly. "Why, I am a Queen--the Queen of all the Field Mice!"
The Queen of the Field Mice is upset at being referred to as simply a mouse.
Everyone seemed happy and contented and ___________.
A) Rejoiced
B) Prosperous
C) Shrill
B) Prosperous
Idle
Silly or trivial.
Heedless
"We will!" cried all the mice, in a shrill chorus.
The mice say this in a very high-pitched voice.
Here they dropped the poor Woodman, who fell a great distance to the rocks, where he lay so ___________ and dented that he could neither move nor groan.
A) Battered
B) Despairingly
C) Frail
A) Battered
Rejoice
To Feel Happiness.
Dominance or power through legal authority.
Dominion
So they sat down upon the bank and gazed wistfully at the Scarecrow until a Stork flew by...
They sat on the bank and stared at the Scarecrow very sadly. The sadness is very clear on their faces.
The Wicked Witch was so angry when she saw her black bees in little heaps like fine coal that she stamped her foot and tore her hair and ___________ her teeth.
A)Gnashed
B) Singed
C) Idled
A) Gnashed