Vocabulary Quiz

Which word means "to scold or criticize someone severely"?

• Avail

• Chastise

• Hover

• Loll

Which word means "to be of use or benefit to"?

• Avail

• Bizarre

• Deplore

• Modify

Which word means "strange or unusual"?

• Contagious

• Bizarre

• Tedious

• Spontaneous

Which word means "able to be passed easily from one person to another"?

• Culminate

• Contagious

• Dialect

• Preposterous

Which word means "to reach the highest point or final stage"?

• Modify

• Subsides

• Culminate

• Loll

Which word means "to express strong disapproval of"?

• Deplore

• Hover

• Spontaneous

• Tedious

Which word means "a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group"?

• Dialect

• Avail

• Modify

• Subsides

Which word means "to remain in one place in the air"?

• Loll

• Hover

• Chastise

• Preposterous

Which word means "to sit, lie, or stand in a lazy, relaxed way"?

• Loll

• Modify

• Spontaneous

• Tedious

Which word means "to change something slightly"?

• Modify

• Deplore

• Avail

• Culminate