Unit 5 vocabulary

Question 1

What is a menagerie?

Answer 1

A collection of wild or foreign animals kept especially for exhibition

Question 2

What part of speech is menagerie?

Answer 2

Noun

Question 3

What does the word mourn mean?

Answer 3

To feel sorrow, esp. over someone’s death

Question 4

How do you spell the word that means to feel sorrow, esp. over someone’s death?

Answer 4

M-o-u-r-n

Question 5

What part of speech is mourn?

Answer 5

Verb

Question 6

What is a parcel?

Answer 6

A package

Question 7

What part of speech is parcel?

Answer 7

Noun

Question 8

What does the word peculiar mean?

Answer 8

Strange or odd; unusual

Question 9

What part of speech is peculiar?

Answer 9

Adjective

Question 10

How do you spell the word that means strange or odd; unusual?

Answer 10

P-e-c-u-l-i-a-r

Question 11

What does the word plummet mean?

Answer 11

To fall straight down; to plunge

Question 12

What part of speech is plummet?

Answer 12

Verb

Question 13

What does the word shudder mean?

Answer 13

To tremble with fear or horror

Question 14

What part of speech is shudder?

Answer 14

Verb

Question 15

What is a silhouette?

Answer 15

A picture of the outline of an object filled in with a solid color (usually black); the outline of an object seen against the light

Question 16

How do you spell a word that means A picture of the outline of an object filled in with a solid color (usually black); the outline of an object seen against the light

Answer 16

S-i-l-h-o-u-e-t-t-e

Question 17

What part of speech is silhouette

Answer 17

Noun

Question 18

What does slay mean?

Answer 18

To put to death violently or in great numbers

Question 19

What part of speech is slay?

Answer 19

Verb

Question 20

What does the word smother mean?

Answer 20

To overcome or kill by depriving of air or exposing to smoke or fumes

Question 21

What part of speech is smother?

Answer 21

Verb

Question 22

What does transform mean?

Answer 22

To change completely in appearance or form

Question 23

What part of speech is transform?

Answer 23

Verb

Question 24

How do you spell a word that means To change completely in appearance or form?

Answer 24

T-r-a-n-s-f-o-r-m

Question 25

What is a deluge?

Answer 25

A flood (of water, for example); an overwhelming amount of something

Question 26

What part of speech is deluge?

Answer 26

Noun

Question 27

How do you spell a word that means A flood (of water, for example); an overwhelming amount of something?

Answer 27

D-e-l-u-g-e

Question 28

What is an executioner?

Answer 28

A person who carries out a convicts death sentence

Question 29

What does gaunt mean?

Answer 29

being thin or bony(as from hunger or suffering)

Question 30

how do you spell a word that means being thin or bony(as from hunger or suffering)?

Answer 30

G-a-u-n-t

Question 31

What part of speech is gaunt?

Answer 31

Adjective

Question 32

What does grotesque mean?

Answer 32

Very ugly, deformed or monstrous

Question 33

What part of speech is grotesque?

Answer 33

Adjective

Question 34

How do you spell a word that means Very ugly, deformed or monstrous ?

Answer 34

G-r-o-t-e-s-q-u-e

Question 35

What does haste mean?

Answer 35

Excessive speed; quickness

Question 36

What part of speech is haste?

Answer 36

Noun

Question 37

What does immense mean?

Answer 37

Huge; colossal

Question 38

What part of speech is immense

Answer 38

Adjective

Question 39

How do you spell a word that means Huge; colossal?

Answer 39

I-m-m-e-n-s-e

Question 40

What is inferno mean?

Answer 40

A place or state that resembles hell, esp. in great heat or raging fire 🔥

Question 41

What part of speech is inferno?

Answer 41

Noun

Question 42

What does inquisitive mean?

Answer 42

Asking many questions; curious about other people's affairs

Question 43

What part of speech is inquisitive?

Answer 43

Adjective

Question 44

How do you spell a word that means Asking many questions; curious about other people's affairs ?

Answer 44

I-n-q-u-i-s-i-t-i-v-e

Question 45

What does loom mean?

Answer 45

To appear suddenly, often with a large, strange form; to come into view

Question 46

What part of speech is loom?

Answer 46

Verb

Question 47

What does lunatic mean?

Answer 47

An insane person

Question 48

How do you spell the word that means an insane person?

Answer 48

L-u-n-a-t-i-c

Question 49

What part of speech is lunatic?

Answer 49

Noun