Wordly Wise Book 5 Lesson 15

Question 0

Adj., causing much damage or harm

Answer 0

Disastrous

Question 1

N., something that causes great damage or harm

Answer 1

Disaster

Question 2

v., to run away from danger or from something frightening

Answer 2

flee

Question 3

v., past tense of flee

Answer 3

fled

Question 4

n., a crack or break, as in metal or bone

Answer 4

fracture

Question 5

v., to crack or break

Answer 5

fracture

Question 6

adj., great in size or extent

Answer 6

immense

Question 7

adj., great in degree

Answer 7

immense

Question 8

adj., very strong, very great

Answer 8

intense

Question 9

adj., showing great depth of feeling

Answer 9

intense

Question 10

n., great strength or force

Answer 10

intensity

Question 11

v., to look into closely; to study in great detail

Answer 11

investigate

Question 12

v., to move forward or to one side suddenly and unexpectedly

Answer 12

lurch

Question 13

n. a jerking or swaying movement

Answer 13

lurch

Question 14

adj., great in size, number, or importance

Answer 14

major

Question 15

n., a military officer just above a captain in rank

Answer 15

major

Question 16

n., the main subject a student is studying

Answer 16

major

Question 17

v., to study as one’s most important subject

Answer 17

major

Question 18

adj., small; unimportant

Answer 18

minor

Question 19

n., a person who is not yet an adult; a child

Answer 19

minor

Question 20

v., to make rigid with terror; to terrify

Answer 20

petrify

Question 21

v., to change into a stonelike substance

Answer 21

petrify

Question 22

v., to say what will happen before it takes place

Answer 22

predict

Question 23

n., something that is predicted

Answer 23

prediction

Question 24

adj., likely to have or do

Answer 24

prone

Question 25

adj., lying face downward

Answer 25

prone

Question 26

adj., thinly grown or spread

Answer 26

sparse

Question 27

adj., not crowded

Answer 27

sparse

Question 28

v., to fall or push over

Answer 28

topple

Question 29

v., to overthrow

Answer 29

topple

Question 30

adj., having to do with cities

Answer 30

urban