Vocabulary Practice

pioneers billow sod modestly hover
heed funnel barreling destruction territories

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  1. Which word does not belong with the others?
discretely modestly humbly gently
  1. Complete the following analogy:

walk : run :: walking : _____________

  1. Which of the following does not describe destruction?
a field full of wildflowers turned over desks
the door ripped off the building roof blown off the schoolhouse
  1. Which of the following does NOT describe billowing?
sheets in the breeze blowing snow
wind in the sails a twisting tornado
  1. Which word from the list above best completes this sentence.

Trains crossed the prairie after the ______________ came.

  1. Complete the word web.

What is this word?

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

Huge clouds of black smoke billowed into the gray sky.

______________________________________________

Their white coverings billowed in the breeze.
 ______________________________________________

 

  1. Pick a good replacement word for earth in the following sentence.

So pioneers often made their houses out of earth bricks, which were blocks of earth cut out of the prairie.

______________________________________________

  1. What does the word funnel mean in the following sentence?

They swirled into a funnel shape.

a.  cone
b.  cube
c.  cylinder
d.  flat

  1. Complete the word web.

What is this word?

  1. Fill in the blank space with one of the vocabulary words listed above.

Most were headed for the _____________ of Oregon and California.

 

Answer Key:

  1. gently

  2. barreling

  3. a field full of wildflowers

  4. a twisting tornado

  5. a twisting tornado

  6. pioneers

  7. a.  A great swell or surge, cloud, swirl, puff    
    b.  To swell out or bulge

  8. sod

  9. a.  cone

  10. heed

  11. territories