Vocabulary - Night, Chapter 1

Fill in the missing words with your vocabulary. I knew a young man who lived in absolute penury. Due to his family's inability to afford food, he was always waiflike in appearance. The rumor was that when the last hurricane came through and annihilated the docks, his whole family lost their jobs. Although some of the townsfolk treated him indulgently, offering him kind words and a place to stay, many insinuated behind his back that his family's poverty was of its own making. However, abstract ideas like that never meant much to me. I've always been more of a concrete thinker. Fill in the missing words with your vocabulary. Knowing the risks of my plan, I ventured into the woods by myself in the middle of the night last week. I had found an idea spot to watch the moonrise. The experience would be truly sublime in the right setting but unfortunately the ideal field was on my neighbor's property and therefore prohibited territory. He was indiscriminate about setting his dogs on trespassers so it wouldn't matter that he knew that I was not a thief or a vandal. I ignored the posted edicts demanding that I stay on my own side of the fence and surreptitiously crawled under it into the field. Place each word into the category for the proper part of speech. Adjectives waiflike abstract sublime Adverbs indulgently indiscriminately surreptitiously Match the word with its antonym. edict request annhilate create penury wealth indulgent unforgiving prohibit allow Select the word that most accurate completes the sentence:The result of his addiction to gambling was that after one night's bad luck he found himself impoverished and had to live in _ for the rest of his life abstract waiflike edict penury sublime Select the word that most accurate completes the sentence:In 1909 the sale of intoxicating liquids was _ by the state, making it illegal to buy, sell, or transport alcohol. edicted prohibited annihilated ventured insinuated Select the word that most accurate completes the sentence:When his favorite hockey team lost, Rob _ that it was due to cheating by the other team and bad calls by the referee and not because his goalie missed most of the shots. surreptitious indulged annihilated prohibited insinuated Select the word that most accurate completes the sentence:The town issued an _ which stated that no person under the age of 18 should be outside after 10 pm. Any who broke that rule would be foreced to pay a hefty fine. abstract edict penury indiscriminate prohibited Select the word that most accurate completes the sentence:Since I really didn't care which book I read, I ran my finger along the shelf and _ selected the one on which my finger randomly stopped. surreptitiously venturing indiscriminately waiflike abstract What did you think of the new quiz format?