Vocabulary Practice

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1. Which word does not belong with the others?

prisoner

penitentiary

slammer

correctional institution

2. Complete the following analogy:

walk : barge :: _____________ : yell

3. Which of the following does not describe vengeance?

4. Which of the following is NOT contagious?

5. Which word from the list above best completes this sentence.

Don't let those children tear up my ___________ hedge!

6. Complete the word web.

7. What are the two meanings of barge in the following sentences?

Some people said it wasn't fair for a whole family who didn't even go to our church to barge in and take over the pageant.

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The barge floated lazily down the muddy river.

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8. Pick a good replacement word for attitude in the following sentence.

"Not a very Christian attitude," my father said.

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9. What does the word sacrilegious mean in the following sentence?

Alice's mother told the Ladies' Aid that it was sacrilegious to let Imogene Herdman be Mary.

a.  dirty
b.  comical
c.  disrespectful
d.  mean

10. Complete the word web.

Answer Key:

1. prisoner

2. Possible answers:  talk, speak, whisper

3. parent disciplining small child

4. broken leg

5. privet

6. Possible answers:  married, engaged, to take as spouse, to take to wife or husband

7. a.  to intrude or interrupt, especially rudely, break in, burst in, collide, infringe,  muscle in, push
   b.  a long, large, usually flatbottom boat for transporting freight that is generally unpowered and towed or pushed by other craft.

8. sentiment

9. c.  disrespectful

10. vengeance