Vocabulary Quiz 1

What does 'appease' mean?

• To make someone happy
• To make someone less angry
• To ignore someone
• To argue with someone

What does 'barren' mean?

• Full of plants
• Dry and unable to grow plants
• Wet and muddy
• Colorful and lively

What does 'quantities' mean?

• Colors of something
• Amounts of something that can be counted
• Shapes of something
• Sizes of something

What does 'appease' mean?

• To make someone happy by giving them what they want
• To make someone more angry
• To ignore someone's feelings
• To argue with someone

What describes a 'barren' landscape?

• A lush green forest
• A dry area where nothing grows
• A colorful garden
• A wet swamp

When something is 'tempting', what does that mean?

• Something you don't want at all
• Something you want very much
• Something that is boring
• Something that is scary

When something happens 'ominously', it suggests:

• Something good will happen
• Something exciting is coming
• Something bad might happen
• Something is completely normal

The chocolate cake looked so _______ that Jimmy couldn't resist.

• barren
• tempting
• quantities
• appease
• ominously

The desert was a _______ land where no plants could grow.

• tempting
• appease
• barren
• quantities
• ominously

To _______ his angry sister, he shared his toys with her.

• appease
• tempting
• barren
• quantities
• ominously