"The Most Dangerous Game"
Vocabulary Worksheet
Name
Class
Date
EXERCISE A
Answer the following questions by restating the question and using the vocabulary word in your answer.
1. When are you unruffled?
2. Describe something that is receding.
3. What is something imprudent to do at school?
4. When you were a child, what did your parents or grandparents do to divert your attention?
5. What might a teacher do to prolong class?
6. Describe an obstacle you have surmounted.
7. If something is protruding into the aisle where you are trying to walk, what do you do?
8. If you are in trouble, how do you appear disarming?
9. What invariably happens when it rains?
10. What impulse is the hardest for you to control?
EXERCISE B
Synonyms. Find a synonym for each of the following vocabulary words.
1. receding
6. unruffled
2. disarming
7. invariably
3. prolonged
8. diverting
4. imprudent
9. impulse
5. surmounted
10. protruding
EXERCISE C
Divide a 5X8 note card into 4 sections.
In the top left section, write the word.
In the top right section, write a
synonym. In the bottom left section,
draw a picture illustrating the word. In
the bottom right section, use the word
in a sentence. Underline the word in
that sentence.
ravenous
starving
I am always ravenous
during third period because
I never eat breakfast.