English 1 Vocabulary Quiz #1

The dwarves heard the awful rumour of his flight, and they crouched against the walls of the grassy terrace CRINGING under boulders, hoping somehow to escape the frightful eyes of the hunting dragon.

Bilbo wasn’t always going to be bumbling – or even DOZING – through the action. During one of Tolkien’s stabs at writing the book, Tolkien actually had the leaf-smoker lined up to sting the killer blow into desolating dragon Smaug, before leaving it to more capable hands. Well, he doesn’t exactly look the monster slaying sort.

When about fifty had gone off to the place where he had stood before, he threw some more stones at these, and at others that had stopped behind; then dancing among the trees he began to sing a song to INFURIATE them and bring them all after him, and also to let the dwarves hear his voice.

After a Nix free throw temporarily ended the spell, Ohio State continued its ONSLAUGHT. Seattle Times (Feb 25, 2013)

The dwarf prince Thorin, grandson of the King Under the Mountain, received a mighty blow, CLEAVING his shield in two. Taking up a protective oak branch in its stead, Thorin began pummeling his foes, earning him the moniker Thorin Oakenshield.

The novel, The Hobbit, takes place in the fictional land of Middle Earth, following the lead characters as they travel from the small village of Hobbiton through wild forests and goblin INFESTED and dragon inhabited mountains.

Having led the spiders away, Bilbo slips back and cuts the dwarves free. But the spiders soon return, and the dwarves, weak from the spiders’ poison, can hardly fight them off, even with the aid of the invisible Bilbo. Just when the situation looks completely hopeless, the spiders suddenly retreat, and the company realizes that they themselves have retreated into one of the clearings used by elves. There, they rest to PONDER their next course of action.

Bilbo saw it go right through the Great Goblin as he stood DUMBFOUNDED in the middle of his rage.

It’s so easy to get DISMAYED about humanity on days like today. Scientific American (Apr 16, 2013)

Past leadership transitions in China have also kindled hopes for big change, including some political liberalization.

At the funeral’s conclusion, dense THRONGS that pressed in behind police barriers before St. Paul’s raised a cheer of “Hooray!

After nearly a dozen years of FOILED plots, the United States on Monday suffered the first large-scale bombing since the attacks of Sept.

Hollywood's gatekeepers have seen countless projects WITHER on the vine or get stuck in development hell.

Critics appreciated Obama's call to end the BICKERING but said more still needed to be done.

A farmer, who had been to receive a sum of money, was WAYLAID, robbed, and murdered, by two villains. Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

Alas, paying up does not make the problem disappear, as English kings discovered long ago when they bribed Viking MARAUDERS to go away.

But out of this DEVASTATING wreckage emerged an unexpected triumph.

SUSTAINED efforts are often required to select and achieve such goals. Science Magazine (Apr 18, 2013)

Perhaps the flame of revolution had now grown too hot to be QUENCHED by soothing measures. Johnson, Willis Fletcher

Mostly, they dismiss JABBERING between fans as good-natured ribbing. Seattle Times (Dec 31, 2012)

The showroom hadn’t been updated and advertising was sparse, making it harder to compete with the SLEEK dealerships popping up along northern New Jersey’s highways.