Vocabulary Building Quiz

Vocabulary Lists

• Satsuma: a type of tangerine typically grown in Japan
• Stake out: to keep under surveillance
• Flask: a container or bottle
• Swig: a large mouthful of a drink swallowed at once
• Wheezy: making a breathless whistling sound
• Croak: a deep throaty sound
• Innovative: original and creative
• Inflatable: capable of being filled with air like a balloon
• Snugly: comfortably, cozily
• Jetting: flying
• Wilted: became weak or limp
• Fretting: anxiously worrying
• Hostile: aggressive and unwelcoming
• Shielding: covering or protecting
• Twitching: making short and sudden movements
• Buoyancy: the ability to float
• Thick: unable to understand easily
• Bargain: a deal

IGCSE Workbook

• Inaccurate: not accurate or true; false
• Groggy: unsteady and unable to think clearly
• Emerging: become apparent, noticeable, or established
• Sensible: reasonable or practical
• Jeopardises: to put or place at risk
• Prospects: the possibility or likelihood of success in the future
• Adolescents: teenagers
• Deprived: suffering a severe and damaging lack of a basic need
• Fatal: deadly
• Narcolepsy: a medical condition that makes you fall asleep suddenly
• Nod off: to fall asleep
• Stimulated: to provoke or cause more excitement, development, or progress

Cosmic

• Dome: a mansion or grand building with a rounded top
• Whirling: moving in a circle or curve with force or speed
• Spindle: a long, thin rod which turns around something or around which something turns
• Centrifuge: a machine used for separating substances of different densities, removing moisture, or simulating gravitational effects
• Budge: move
• Hissing: making a sharp sibilant sound as of the letter s
• Swagger: conduct oneself in a confident or arrogant manner
• Plonked: dropped heavily and suddenly
• Fulcrum: support on which a lever turns
• Propelling: pushing or causing to move usually forward or onward
• Simulator: device that enables the operator to reproduce or represent under test conditions phenomena likely to occur in actual performance
• Replica: an exact or very close copy of something
• Itch: have or produce an unpleasant feeling that makes one want to scratch
• Bungalow: a one-storied house with a low-pitched roof
• Daft: strange, often in a way that is funny or absurd
• Mongrel: a dog with parents of different breeds
• Stray: a domestic animal that is wandering at large or is lost
• Flinch: move suddenly because you are afraid of being hit or hurt
• Butty: a sandwich

Cosmic (pages 236-276)

• Fuss: needless bustle or excitement
• Dollops: lumps of something soft or mushy
• Luminescence: low-temperature emission of light
• Meteors: pieces of rocks or metal that burn and glow brightly in the sky as they fall from outer space into the Earth’s atmosphere
• Grinning: smiling widely
• Mage: magician
• Fiddled: fidgeted nervously with something
• Quarters: living spaces
• Clanging: having a loud noise

Cosmic (pages 1-40)

• Manoeuvre: operation or procedure
• Orbit: a path in space curved around a star, planet, or moon
• Wrecking: destroying
• Dozed off: went to sleep
• Levitate: float in the air
• Tangled: tied together in a messy way
• Wispy: thin
• Fasten: close in a safe way; secure
• Catapults: throws things or people across a long distance
• Blatantly: in a deliberate and unashamed way
• Rocketing: moving speedily
• Crisper: sharper
• Profound: serious and meaningful
• Dwindled: lessened
• Plug: fill in; block
• Exerted: applied a force
• Remote: isolated
• Premature: sooner than expected
• Slashed: violently cut
• Mutation: transformation
• Stubbly: having short, stiff hairs on the face
• Waggled: moved from side to side
• Peculiar: strange
• Disruptive: disturbing
• Bidding: commands or requests
• Glossier: shinier and smoother
• Nabbed: grabbed quickly

Cosmic (pages 41-81)

• Sleek: smooth or shiny
• Bonnet: the front hood of a car
• Crouched: lowered the body stance by bending the legs
• Wailed: shouted with emotion
• Persuaded: convinced
• Unwind: relieve stress, relax
• Excursion: a short trip
• Escorting: accompanying as supervisor
• Supposedly: assumed to be in a certain way
• Coaxing: convincing someone gently to do something