Use In A Sentence
Guess the Word
Multiple Choice
Mystery
100

Profoundly 

The meaning is intense or absolute 

Ex: It will make us all profoundly wise, wiser than the wisest person who has ever lived. 

100

_______ means unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary

Inevitably

100

She's very _____ and when she meets people she barley talks. 

A. Timid

B. Scorn

C. Quivering

A. Timid

100

Use haltingly in a sentence 

Haltingly - faulting or hesitating, especially in speech

200

Meek 

The definition is overly submissive or compliant; spiritless; tame

Ex:She may seem meek and mild but it is all an act. 

200

_______ means enrolling in a college or university as a candidate for a degree

Matriculation

200

Lost and alone, the puppy spent the cold winter night shakily ______ in an abandoned barn.

A. Malfeasance

B. Haltingly

C. Quivering

C. Quivering

200

Which word fits correctly?

Chris slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his clear,______ eyes in the general's face.

Insolent, Haltingly, or Incessant


Insolent

300

Scorn

The definition is the feeling or belief that someone or something is worthless or despicable; contempt.

Ex:Her tactics would never earn anything but scorn from Alexis, but they worked.

300

To force or push toward a course of action; overpowering

Compelled

300

Yet there is a certain difference between this and the work of a poor artist whose designs are_______.

A. Threadbare

B. Ominous

C. Apprehensive

A. Threadbare

300

Fill in the blank.

 ______ means unending, continuing without interruption

Incessant

400

Malfeasance

Malfeasance means the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust)

Ex:The government wants to draw a line under the glut of financial malfeasance. 


400

Movement upward from a lower to a higher state, degree, grade, or status; advancement

Ascent

400

Even Katie looked ________at her hesitation. 

A. Haltingly

B. Apprehensive

C. Condemned

B. Apprehensive

400

Which word fits correctly?

His love of books _______ him toward a literary career. 

Denounce or Inclined

Inclined

500

Bore 

Bore means make (a hole) in something, especially with a revolving tool

Ex: This drill can bore through rock.

500

______ giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening.

Ominous

500

The farmer was _______ to his farm after the hurricane flooded the area around him.

A. Insolent 

B. Haltingly

C. Condemned

C. Condemned

500

Use denounce in a sentence. 

denounce means to make a formal accusation against, as to the police or in court