vocab

Question 1

profusely

Answer 1

1) adverb
2) exhibiting great abundance; bountiful
3) “The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green” (738).

Question 2

boisterous

Answer 2

1) adjective
2) noisily turbulent : ROWDY
3) “School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play” (738).

Question 3

reprimand

Answer 3

1) verb
2) a severe or formal reproof

Question 4

civic

Answer 4

1) adjective
2) of or relating to a citizen, a city, citizenship, or community affairs

Question 5

jovial

Answer 5

1) adjective
2) characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : JOLLY
3) “He was a round faced, jovial man and he ran the coal business, and people were sorry for him, because he had no children and his wife was a scold” (739).

Question 6

perfunctory

Answer 6

1) adjective
2) characterized by routine or superficiality : MECHANICAL
3) “There was the proper swearing-in of Mr. Summers by the postmaster, as the official of the lottery; at one time some people remembered, there had been a recital of some sort, performed by the official of the lottery, a perfunctory, tuneless chant that had been rattled off duly each year; some people believed that the official of the lottery used to stand just so when he said or sang it, others believed that he was supposed to walk among the people, but years and years ago this part of the irutal had been allowed to lapse” (740)

Question 7

interminably

Answer 7

1) adjective
2) having or seeming to have no end
3) “He seemed very proper and important as he talked interminably to Mr. Graves and the Martins” (740).

Question 8

surly

Answer 8

1) adjective
2) menacing or threatening in appearance 3) “So me and Sugar leaning on the mailbox being surly, which is a Miss Moore word” (196).

Question 9

ferocious

Answer 9

1) adjective
2) exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality

Question 10

notion

Answer 10

1) noun
2) an individual’s conception or impression of something known, experienced, or imagined
3) “And Big Butt ain’t got the first notion” (197)

Question 11

recitation

Answer 11

1) noun
2) the act of enumerating

Question 12

treachery

Answer 12

1) noun
2) violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence : TREASON
3) “Miss Moore is besides herself and I am disgusted with sugars treachery” (201).

Question 13

furtive

Answer 13

1) adjective
2) done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed
3) “Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on washday after school” (169).

Question 14

cowering

Answer 14

1) verb
2) to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays

Question 15

doctrines

Answer 15

1) noun
2) a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief
3) “Hakim-a-barber said, ‘I accept some of their doctrines, but farming and raising cattle is not my style’” (171).

Question 16

clabber

Answer 16

1) noun
2) sour milk that has thickened or curdled
3) “She jumped up from the table and went over in the corner where the churn stood, the milk in it clabber by now” (171).

Question 17

dasher

Answer 17

1) noun
2) a device having blades for agitating a liquid or semisolid
3) “‘And I want the dasher, too’” (171).

Question 18

heritage

Answer 18

1) noun
2) property that descends to an heir

Question 19

trifles

Answer 19

1) noun
2) something of little value, substance, or importance
3) “‘Oh, well,’ said Mrs. Hales husband, with good-natured superiority, ‘women are used to worrying over trifles’” (821).

Question 20

disdainful

Answer 20

1) adjective
2) full of or expressing contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior
3) “Then, as if releasing herself from something strange, Mrs. Hale began to arrange the dirty pans under the sink which the county attorney’s disdainful push of the oot had deranged” (823).

Question 21

acquiescence

Answer 21

1) noun
2) passive acceptance or submission : the act of acquiescing or the state of being acquiescent
3) “‘Of course it’s no more than their duty,’ said the sheriff’s wife, in her manner of timid acquiescence” (823).

Question 22

detained

Answer 22

1) verb
2) to hold or keep in or as if in custody

Question 23

shabby

Answer 23

1) adjective
2) inferior in quality

Question 24

indecisive

Answer 24

1) adjective
2) marked by or prone to indecision

Question 25

scrutinized

Answer 25

1) verb
2) to examine closely and minutely
3) “…Martha Hale now scrutinized that piece, compared it with the dainty, accurate sewing of the other blocks” (827).

Question 26

apprehensive

Answer 26

1) adjective
2) viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future

Question 27

incisively

Answer 27

1) adjective
2) impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation)
3) “‘No, Peters,’ said the county attorney incisively, ‘its all perfectly clear, except the reason for doing it’” (832).

Question 28

evasion

Answer 28

1) noun
2) a means of evading

Question 29

facetiously

Answer 29

1) adjective
2) joking or jesting often inappropriately
3) “‘Well, Henry,’ said the county attorney facetiously, ‘at least we found out that she was not going to quilt it’” (834).

Question 30

pungent

Answer 30

1) adjective
2) sharply painful
3) “My brothers and I would peer into the medicinal herb shop, watching old Li dole out onto a stiff sheet of white paper the right amount of insect shells, saffron-colored seeds, and pungent leaves for his ailing customers” (225).

Question 31

solemnity

Answer 31

1) noun
2) formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event
3) “He then solemnly asked if I had been a very, very good girl this year and did I believe in Jesus Christ and obey my parents” (226).

Question 32

pawn

Answer 32

1) noun
2) one of the chessmen of least value having the power to move only forward ordinarily one square at a time, to capture only diagonally forward, and to be promoted to any piece except a king upon reaching the eighth rank

Question 33

benevolently

Answer 33

1) adjective
2) marked by or disposed to doing good 3) “‘Little sister, been a long time since I play with dolls,’ he said, smiling benevolently. I quickly put the box down next to him on the bench and displayed my retort” (229).

Question 34

retort

Answer 34

1) verb
2) to reply: RETURN

Question 35

prodigy

Answer 35

1) noun
2) a highly talented child or youth

Question 36

malodorous

Answer 36

1) adjective
2) having a bad odor
3) “He wore a dark, malodorous suit” (231).