Fablehaven Vocab Quiz (Ch. 9 & 10)

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

The goblin ​ (a)   around the room, tearing down bookshelves, upsetting toy chests, and snapping the horn off the rocking horse.

"If you ​ (b)   to my rules, you had nothing to worry about."

• cavorted
• adhered
• underscored
• undulated

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

The apparition's dark hair ​ (a)   like vapor in a breeze.

The long, mournful howl ​ (b)   his statement.

• undulated
• underscored
• adhered
• cavorted

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

Lena's high, trilling voice gave life to a ​ (a)   melody.

Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the ​ (b)   of old age.

• wistful
• enfeeblement
• riotous
• facile
• scabrous

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

Once I played on the trapeze and tightrope with ​ (a)   agility.

We were relieved that she found ​ (b)   in her later years of retirement.

• facile
• solace
• riotous
• ineffectual

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

The child was replaced by a leering goblin with a face that was ​ (a)   and lumpy.

Warbling moans echoed on the breeze, groaning in different pitches, forming eerie, ​ (b)   harmonies.

• scabrous
• discordant
• ineffectual
• wistful

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

The sounds were muffled, but continued: the haunted wind ​ (a)   , the house shuddering, and an increasing assortment of shrieks, screams, and howls.

Without children, or adults in the room, the barriers become ​ (b)   .

• lamenting
• ineffectual
• dispelling
• underscoring
• riotous

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

Midsummer Eve is a holiday of ​ (a)   abandon for the whimsical creatures of Fablehaven.

The children will be in bed at sundown, wear earplugs, and not arise until sunrise ​ (b)   the horrors of the night.

• riotous
• dispels
• adheres
• undulates
• facile