Vocabulary Quiz

What does the word 'exhilarate' mean?

• To make merry or lively

• To cut ties with someone

• To act secretly

• To spend wastefully

Which of the following words is the opposite of 'squander'?

• Use

• Save

• Spend

• Waste

What is the definition of 'conspiracy'?

• To act secretly

• To spend wastefully

• To make merry or lively

• To cut ties with someone

Which word best describes something that is 'garish'?

• Tasteful

• Elegant

• Tacky

• Dull

What does the word 'goad' mean?

• To urge

• To leap or romp about

• Not revealing one's opinion or purpose

• To cut ties with someone

To leap or romp about

• cavort

• sever

• garish

• squander

To cut ties with someone or to remove through physical cutting, usually suddenly or forcibly

• noncommital

• sever

• squander

• exhilarate

What exhilarates Buddy and his friend from "A Christmas Memory"?

• spending time with their family

• watching Netflix

• hunting for a Christmas tree

• making fruitcakes for their "friends"

Some might say that Buddy's and his friend's Christmas tree is...

• exhilarate

• goad

• garish

• noncommital

Buddy and his friend severed....

• their friendship

• the tree from the ground

• ties with their neighbors

• their relationship with Pres. Roosevelt