Vocabulary Quiz for Fifty Famous Stories

I. Give the definition for the following vocabulary words:

swoop

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protect

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punish

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hatchet

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pretense - 2

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necessity

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trial

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clamber

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II. Correctly spell the vocabulary words defined below:

ground on which grass or other vegetation grows

a practice followed by people of a particular group or region

moral obligation

an elaborate, sumptuous meal or feast

to find fault with, usually angrily

of inferior size, strength, or significance

a fugitive from the law; a habitual criminal

the state of being exposed to injury, pain, or loss

a twisting threadlike structure by which a plant holds on to something

III. Use the following vocabulary words in a complete sentence:

soot

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abbot

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habit

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pardon

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scorch

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sculptor

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witty

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cruel

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Vocabulary exercises adapted from Robinson Curriculum, Copyright 1995-2002 Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

Quizzes copyright 2005 Butch Walker

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