Roots, Affixes, Synonyms, Antonyms

"In return for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare rations and a stall?"

What does confinement mean, as used in the sentence above?

• the state of being enclosed

• the state of being held together

• the state of being moved to one place

• the state of being kept from going to a specific place

“At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.”

Which word would best replace ensconced in the above sentence?

• dislodged

• exposed

• comfortable

• established

“He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark--for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.”

What does cynical mean as used in the sentence above?

• confident

• distrustful

• hopeless

• doubtful

“Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others.”

What word would best replace prosperity in the sentence above?

• luck

• fortune

• well-being

• livelihood

What word means to not believe in someone or something?

• misunderstand

• incredible

• uncredited

• discredit

“The soil of England is fertile.”

How would you rewrite “fertile” so that the meaning is not able to produce?

• infertile

• disfertile

• antifertile

• overfertile

“He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom.”

What word would best replace seized in the sentence above?

• placed

• grabbed

• stole

• held

“I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired.”

What does acquired mean in the sentence above?

• obtained

• bought

• received

• stole

Which word is a synonym for benevolent?

• violent

• good mannered

• happy

• kind

Which word is an antonym of regenerate?

• irreplaceable

• destroy

• degenerate

• dispose