The Gift of the Magi Vocab Quiz

Which definition best matches the word imputation in the following sentence: Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.

• Extreme stinginess

• The attribution to a source or cause

• Concerned with principles of right and wrong

• Provide with objects or articles that make a room usable

What image best matches the definition for the word singed in the following sentence: And then Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, “Oh, oh!”

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Which vocabulary word matches the following definition: provoke or stir up.

• Instigates

• Thereunto

• Sterling

• Laboriously

Which definition best matches the word predominating in the following sentence: Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

• Wear off or die down

• Be larger in number, quantity, power, status, or importance

• Provide with objects or articles that make a room usable

• Highest in quality

Determine the definition and the context clue that helps you to find the meaning of sterling in the following sentence: Something fine and rare and sterling--something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.

• Definition: Highest in quality | Clue: Punctuation

• Definition: Lackluster in appearance | Clue: Cause and Effect

• Definition: Lackluster in appearance | Clue: Contrast or Antonym

• Definition: Highest in quality | Clue: Comparison

What is the best synonym for parsimony as it is used in the following sentence: Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.

• Extravagance

• Stinginess

• Poverty

• Generosity

What image best matches the definition for the word flat in the following sentence: While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week.

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Which vocabulary word matches the following definition: Police who arrested beggars and homeless people.

• Vestibule

• Setter

• Mendicancy Squad

• Patent

What image best matches the definition for the word vestibule in the following sentence: In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.

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What is the best synonym for thereunto as it is used in the following sentence: Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."

• To that

• Below

• On top

• None of the above