The Perilous Road Vocabulary Test

1. What does "pertness" mean?

a steep cliff
a kind-hearted action
inappropriate playfulness

2. What does "bluff" mean?

a high, steep bank or cliff
confused or muddled
a rascal or troublemaker

3. What does "plunder" mean?

silent resentment
to reply quickly
that which is taken by force from an enemy

4. What does "retort" mean?

to reply quickly, especially in a sharp or witty manner
mischievous or playful behavior
to grope blindly

5. What does "dire" mean?

a main tree branch
having dreadful or terrible consequences
confused or unsure

6. What does "sullen" mean?

silent resentment or sulkiness
playful mischief
a steep cliff

7. What does "meek" mean?

submissive or easily imposed upon
mischievous or lively
silent resentment

8. What does "scalawag" mean?

confused or muddled
a guard or sentinel
a rascal or troublemaker

9. What does "grabble" mean?

having dreadful or terrible consequences
to grope or feel around blindly
to reply quickly

10. What does "flounder" mean?

to make clumsy attempts to move or regain balance
a steep cliff or bluff
mischievous or playful behavior

11. What does "sentry" mean?

a troublemaker or rascal
a guard, especially a soldier
muddled or confused

12. What does "counter" mean?

to grope or feel around blindly
to respond to or deal with
silent resentment

13. What does "dogtrot" mean?

having dreadful or terrible consequences
mischievous or lively behavior
a roofed passage between two parts of a structure

14. What does "reprove" mean?

to voice disapproval or reprimand
playful mischief or sassiness
silent resentment

15. What does "boughs" mean?

mischievous behavior
silent resentment
a tree branch, especially a large or main branch

16. What does "addled" mean?

mischievous or lively
submissive or silent
muddled or confused

17. What does "behoove" mean?

to be necessary or proper
mischievous behavior
a rascal or troublemaker

18. What does "rouse" mean?

to stir up or excite
playful mischief
to grope or feel around blindly

19. What does "idle" mean?

lacking substance or value
a steep cliff
mischievous behavior

20. What does "slathers" mean?

to use or give great amounts of
muddled or confused
mischievous behavior

21. What does "woeful" mean?

deplorably bad or wretched, sorrowful, mournful
mischievous or lively
to reply quickly

22. What does "cower" mean?

to cringe in fear, recoil, shy away
muddled or confused
lacking substance or value

23. What does "feebly" mean?

lacking strength, weak
mischievous or lively
a rascal or troublemaker

24. What does "rolled" mean?

to move forward along a surface by repeatedly turning over
to grope or feel around blindly
to reply quickly

25. What does "roiled" mean?

to make a liquid muddy or cloudy by stirring up sediment
mischievous or lively behavior
lacking strength or value

26. What does "balk" mean?

to stop short and refuse to go on, shy away
to voice disapproval
to grope blindly

27. What does "fortify" mean?

to reinforce by adding material, strengthen
to feel around blindly
mischievous behavior

28. What does "slathers" mean?

to use or give great amounts of
muddled or confused
mischievous behavior