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Instructions

Complete each vocabulary practice to test your knowledge of words from The Perilous Road. Questions may include:

  • choosing which word does not belong
  • completing analogies or filling in the blanks
  • matching definitions or synonyms to vocabulary words
  • identifying the correct word for a word web based on an image

Read each question carefully and select your answer. Immediate feedback will let you know if your response is correct!

Vocabulary Practice:
The Perilous Road

Test your vocabulary knowledge with this interactive activity!

1. Which word does not belong with the others?







2. Complete the analogy: ocean : sea :: _____________ : cliff




3. Which word can replace necessitate in this sentence? Them fellers is up to no good, and it would necessitate us to lay low.




4. Which word means to reply, especially in a quick, witty manner?




5. Guess where I sat a long time last night, Up in the _______ my heart did ache. To see the hole the fox did make. (A tree branch, especially a large or main branch)





6. Select the word that matches this image:

Word Web for Vocabulary Question



Vocabulary Practice:
The Perilous Road

Finish strong with these last vocabulary questions!

1. Which word does not belong with the others?






2. Complete the analogy: ocean : sea :: cringe : _____________




3. Select the word that matches this image:

Word Web for Vocabulary Question



4. What word means to make (a liquid) muddy or cloudy by stirring up sediment?




5. Select the word that matches this image:

Word Web for Vocabulary Question



6. Complete the sentence: "The beast kicked ___________ and then was still."




7. Select the word that matches this image:

Word Web for Vocabulary Question



8. Which word means to use or give great amounts of?




Vocabulary Practice:
The Perilous Road

Keep sharpening your vocabulary skills with this set of questions!

1. Antonyms of the word reprove include approve, compliment, flatter, praise, and reward. Which of the following is a synonym of reprove?





2. What word can replace shrank in the sentence: "He shrank back inside the wagon, out of sight."?




3. What does the word rolled mean in this sentence? "The smoke and dust rolled and roiled among the trees."





4. Complete the word web by selecting the correct word for this image:

Word Web for Vocabulary Question



5. Which of the following does NOT describe balk?





6. Select the word that matches this image:

Word Web for Vocabulary Question