Midterm Vocabulary Review

Question 1

fault or weak point

Answer 1

weakness

Question 2

firm belief in yourself

Answer 2

confidence

Question 3

part of the baseball field outside the plates

Answer 3

outfield

Question 4

tendon or stretchy part near muscle

Answer 4

sinew

Question 5

large, thick brown seaweed

Answer 5

kelp

Question 6

quality of truthfulness

Answer 6

honesty

Question 7

the only of its kind; no equal

Answer 7

unique

Question 8

making fun of; laughing at

Answer 8

mocking

Question 9

to bite and wear away

Answer 9

gnaw

Question 10

high piece of land sticking out over the water

Answer 10

headland

Question 11

marked skin; used to identify farm animals

Answer 11

branded

Question 12

a calming song; for a child

Answer 12

lullaby

Question 13

useful, to make use of the resources

Answer 13

resourceful

Question 14

in a continued or persisting way

Answer 14

insistently

Question 15

stealing

Answer 15

thieving

Question 16

pressure or pushing against something

Answer 16

compressions

Question 17

elegantly or with much care

Answer 17

daintily

Question 18

destruction

Answer 18

devastation

Question 19

complain or mutter unhappily

Answer 19

grumbled

Question 20

not moving, or without direction

Answer 20

neutral

Question 21

paths that carry blood through the body

Answer 21

veins

Question 22

a thick, black, sticky substance

Answer 22

pitch

Question 23

very small

Answer 23

minute

Question 24

regularly or usually

Answer 24

normally

Question 25

on purpose, a way that demands attention

Answer 25

intentionally