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Tuck Everlasting Vocabulary Quiz

Directions: Match the words in the first column to the best available answer in the second column.

 

_____ ambled 1) to comfort in times of grief distress or suffering
 
_____ tangent 2) to go in a different direction
 
_____ tranquil 3) unnaturally excited or emotional
 
_____ gallows 4) showing doubt or unwillingness
 
_____ reluctantly 5) to expose to risk
 
_____ console 6) irritated
 
_____ stagger 7) the branch of a tree
 
_____ resentful 8) a twisting of the face
 
_____ bovine 9) peaceful
 
_____ venture 10) moving unsteadily
 
_____ grimace 11) a structure from which criminals are hanged
 
_____ oppressive 12) walked leisurely
 
_____ meager 13) the act of looking at or thinking about something steadily
 
_____ contemplation 14) low spirits;very sad
 
_____ veered 15) sorrowful or unhappy
 
_____ bough 16) related to or resembling the ox or cow
 
_____ melancholy 17) touching a sphere at only one point
 
_____ rueful 18) full of annoyance or anger
 
_____ hysterical 19) harsh
 
_____ exasperated 20) having little flesh
 

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