Vocabulary Workshop Quiz

What is the opposite of gush?

• trickle

• renovate

• germinate

• disrupt

Which word could be used to replace interminable?

• short

• uncomfortable

• endless

• fleeting

1. (1.)Between 1975 and 2003, some airline passengers were able to do something extraordinary. (2.)They could board a plane in New York and alight in London only three hours later. (3.)How was such a flight possible? (4.)These passengers paid thousands of dollars extra to fly the Concorde, a jet that dramatically cut down on a trip that, while not exactly interminable, normally lasted about six hours. (5.)The Concorde hurtled through the air at speeds that reached over 1,300 miles per hour, greatly exceeding those of normal jet airplanes. (6)Only 20 Concordes were built in all, and, sadly for people who loved the fast-flying planes, all were retired due to rising operating costs, among other reasons. (7)It is possible, however, that the planes’ glory does not exist only in the past. (8)Perhaps they offer a foretaste of the future as well, since there are projects underway to build new airplanes that would make superfast flights a possibility once again.

What does alight mean in sentence 2?

• touch down

• live temporarily

• travel

• take off

If a plane hurtled through the air, how did it move?

• slowly

• noiselessly

• forcefully

• unsteadily

1. (1.)Between 1975 and 2003, some airline passengers were able to do something extraordinary. (2.)They could board a plane in New York and alight in London only three hours later. (3.)How was such a flight possible? (4.)These passengers paid thousands of dollars extra to fly the Concorde, a jet that dramatically cut down on a trip that, while not exactly interminable, normally lasted about six hours. (5.)The Concorde hurtled through the air at speeds that reached over 1,300 miles per hour, greatly exceeding those of normal jet airplanes. (6)Only 20 Concordes were built in all, and, sadly for people who loved the fast-flying planes, all were retired due to rising operating costs, among other reasons. (7)It is possible, however, that the planes’ glory does not exist only in the past. (8)Perhaps they offer a foretaste of the future as well, since there are projects underway to build new airplanes that would make superfast flights a possibility once again.

What does foretaste mean in sentence 8?

• explanation

• preview

• technology

• memory

What is another word for cease-fire?

• dynasty

• résumé

• truce

• insinuate

What is a family that ruled over the British Empire known as?

• dynasty

• foretaste

• truce

• résumé

How would you describe a friend who is brooding because of resentment?

• trivial

• interminable

• sullen

• humdrum

If an old theater has been restored to good condition, what has happened to it?

• disrupted

• germinated

• recompensed

• renovated

What were some airline passengers able to do between 1975 and 2003?

• germinate

• alight

• truce

• résumé