Sentences 1
Synonyms
Parts of Speech
Word Families
Quotes from Literature
100

Let us __________ to the patio for tea.

adjourn

100

Which word is a synonym for food?

fodder

100

Which part of speech is sully?

Verb

100

Which word has the same root as legible?

illegible

100

“He had ________ (nice looking) nose." -- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

comely

200

She needs to _________ me for all the work I did.

compensate

200

Which word is a synonym for strengthened?

fortified

200

What part of speech is subjugate?

verb

200

Which word has the same root as expel?

expulsion

200

"I am told that pork-packing is the most ________ profession in America, after politics." -- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

lucrative

300
Repeated, serious rule-breaking can result in ________ from school. 

expulsion

300

Which word is a synonym for attractive?

comely

300

What part of speech is unflinching?

adjective

300

Which word has the same root as inalienable?

alien

300

"Biddy distributed three defaced Bibles (shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump−end of something), more ________ printed at the best than any curiosities of literature I have since met with, speckled all over with ironmould, and having various specimens of the insect world smashed between their leaves" -- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Illegibly

(illegible)

400

Heroes may be frightened, but their behavior is _________ toward evil.

Unflinching

400

Which word is a synonym for brief?

terse

400

Which two parts of speech can jeer be?

Noun and verb

400

Which word has the same root as subject? (as in to be subjected to something or be a servant of someone)

subjugate

400

"For such a time do I now _________ against confounding age's cruel knife." -- Sonnet 63, William Shakespeare

fortify

500

The desserts on the menu _________ me. 

Tantalized

500

Which word is a synonym for immoral?

dissolute

500

Which two parts of speech can alien be?

Noun and adjective

500

Which word has the same root as recompense?

compensate

500

"My _________ spirit
Here blandly reposes,
Forgetting, or never
Regretting its roses—
Its old agitations
Of myrtles and roses" -- For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe

tantalized