Vocabulary Quiz

What does the word 'incandescent' mean?

• Small machines or electronic devices

• Making loud noises

• Failure

• Giving off light

What are 'locomotives'?

• Small machines or electronic devices

• Giving off light

• Legal documents

• Railroad engines

What does 'chugged' refer to?

• Small machines or electronic devices

• Brilliant; giving off light

• Noise the engine makes as it runs

• Railroad engines

What are 'gadgets'?

• Brilliant; giving off light

• Railroad engines

• Small machines or electronic devices

• Legal documents

What is a 'phonograph'?

• Brilliant; giving off light

• A machine that plays recorded music or sound

• Railroad engines

• Failure

What does 'sputtered' mean?

• Worked in a rough or uneven way and made popping noises

• Failure

• Railroad engines

• Brilliant; giving off light

What does 'flop' mean in this context?

• Brilliant; giving off light

• Small machines or electronic devices

• Failure

• Legal documents

What is a 'cylinder' in an engine?

• Failure

• Small machines or electronic devices

• Part of an engine that provides the power by taking in gas

• Brilliant; giving off light

What are 'patents'?

• Brilliant; giving off light

• Railroad engines

• Legal documents that give an inventor the sole rights to make and sell the invention

• Failure

What does it mean to 'excel'?

• Small machines or electronic devices

• Railroad engines

• To do well; to be better or greater than others

• Failure