The Phantom Tollbooth Vocabulary Quiz Lesson 1-8

to think about deeply​ (a)  

• meditate
• speculate
• reason

to hypothesize; to make a guess when curious or doubtful​ ​ (a)  

• speculate
• reason
• presume

to arrive at a conclusion through close, careful, logical, thought​ (a)  

• reason
• speculate
• presume

to assume as truth without evidence or question​ (a)  

• presume
• surmise
• lethargy

to voice an opinion with little evidence; imagine​ ​ (a)  

• surmise
• lethargy
• doldrums

a state of having very low energy with drowsiness and lack of interest or feeling​ (a)  

• lethargy
• doldrums
• word play

a boring, gloomy place, or state of mind, in which nothing happens​ (a)  

• doldrums
• pun
• word play

playful or clever use of words to create humor​ (a)  

• word play
• pun
• homophone

​ a humorous play on words based on two words or phrases that are close in sound but different in meaning​ (a)  

• homophone
• homograph
• pun

two or more words that have the same pronunciation​ (a)   but different spellings and different meanings

• homophone
• homograph
• idiom