The Mixer (Vocabulary)
Quiz by Janette Salinas
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- Q1
It might be in your ____________ to remain calm and level-headed when faced with a difficult challenge.
outlook
amiability
nature
surfeit
30s - Q2
There is no point ____________________ around when you face imminent death.
moping
surfeiting
broadening
criticizing
30s - Q3
The sight of something you like might _________________ your smile.
criticize
surfeit
broaden
mope
30s - Q4
_________________ is a word used to describe anyone who spends too much time thinking about death or disease.
mope
wallop
morbid
criticize
30s - Q5
An _____________ person is good-natured and easy to get along with.
critical
morbid
amiable
mopey
30s - Q6
If you hang tombstones on your walls, your taste in art could also be described as ________________________.
critical
mopey
morbid
amiable
30s - Q7
To ___________________ is to find what's wrong with something, like the improbabilities in a movie's plot line, or double standards in your father's rules.
criticize
ambush
wallop
mope
30s - Q8
The friends pressed onwards until the passage ________________ out into a small room with two more tunnels leading from it.
walloped
moped
narrowed
broadened
30s - Q9
Those who _____________ others often are not perfect, either.
criticize
mope
whack
wallop
30s - Q10
From someone who had no place in the world, she had suddenly become someone with a ______________ of places.
morbid
wallop
surfeit
outlook
30s - Q11
Best of all, the family played classical music every afternoon, thus ______________________ Shirley’s cultural horizons.
walloping
moping
surfeiting
broadening
30s - Q12
Your _________________ on the awful present situation might make your __________________ for the future turn grim.
morbid, morbidity
moping, mope
critic, criticism
outlook, outlook
30s - Q13
You have progressed from a state of “wanting to die” to the much more positive _________________ of “learning to live.”
outlook
amiability
criticism
morbid
30s - Q14
To ____________ is to say "Hey! Somebody cheer me up!"
criticize
surfeit
wallow
mope
30s - Q15
A pessimistic __________________ on life will make you see only the negative.
outlook
critic
surfeit
moping
30s