Vocabulary Practice

contagious  penitentiary privet sentiment
sacrilegious barge espoused vengeance
villain hustle congregation milling
charitable confer    
  1. What does congregation mean in the following sentence?

And that's what we're going to do, just as if we were doing it for the whole congregation.

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  1. Give a synonym for hustle as it is used in the following sentence.

You got the feeling these Wise Men were going to hustle back to Herod as fast as they could an squeal on the baby, out of pure meanness.

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  1. Antonyms of the word charitable include penny-pinching, sparing , or stingy. Which of the following is a synonym of charitable?

a.  greedy
b.  noxious
c.  generous
d.  mean

  1. Choose the best word to complete the sentence from the vocabulary list above.

We figured they were headed straight for %*!#, by way of the state ___________ . . .  until they got themselves mixed up with the church, and my mother, and our Christmas pageant.

  1. Which word can replace the words transmittable in the following sentence? Use a word  from the list above.

 "Right now?" Miss Hemphill stared. "Why, he shouldn't be in school with red spots! It could be measles or chicken pox . . . any number of things . . . transmittable things."
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  1. Complete the following analogy:

Big is to little as sacrilegious is to _________.

big : little :: sacrilegious : ____________.

  1. My father was on the church _________ works committee --they give away food baskets at Christmas, and this was the Herdman's food-basket ham. --- - generous in giving money or other help to the needy, giving, accommodating

a.  mission
b.  concerned
c.  charitable
d.  forgiving

  1. Give a synonym for emotion in the following sentence from the list above.

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

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  1. Complete the word web.

What word am I?

  1. Choose the best word from the list above to complete the sentence.

He swore __________________ on the man who betrayed him

  1. What are the two meanings of milling in the following sentences?

Farmer Dan will be milling his corn so that he can have cornbread for supper each night.

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But by that time the kitchen was fuller of smoke than the ladies' room, because, while everybody was milling around in the street, all the applesauce cake burned up.

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  1. Which word from the list above best describes the list below.

Injun Joe Adolph Hitler
Scrooge Saddam Hussein
Lex Luthor The Joker

 

Answer Key

  1. Possible answers:  a group of people gathered for religious worship, worshippers

  2. Possible answers:  to work or move energetically and rapidly, hurry up

  3. c.  generous

  4. penitentiary

  5. contagious 

  6. Possible answers:  religious, respectful of God

  7. c.  charitable

  8. sentiment

  9. contagious

  10. vengeance

  11. a.  to grind, pulverize, or break down into smaller particles in a mill
    b.  moving about or around, shuffling

  12. villain