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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

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