Vocabulary activity for Chapters 9 - 10 of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle!

Here are some exerts from the story. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.

1. "No mind has tried to hold out against IT for so many thousands of centuries that certain centers have become soft and __________ through lack of use."

   
   
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   1.   ?    ominous
   2.   ?    atrophied
   3.   ?    assuaged
   4.   ?    fallible

2. "You'll have to _________ your explanations. Let's go."

   
   
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   1.   ?    atrophied
   2.   ?    corridor
   3.   ?    defer
   4.   ?    fallible

3. But with the tentacle came the same delicate fragrance that moved across her with the breeze, and she felt a soft, tingling warmth go all through her that momentarily __________ her pain.

   
   
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   1.   ?    assuaged
   2.   ?    dais
   3.   ?    sinister
   4.   ?    defer

4. Just as she caught up with them Charles Wallace stopped and raised his hand, and there was the elevator again, its yellow light __________.

   
   
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   1.   ?    corrosive
   2.   ?    sinister
   3.   ?    dais
   4.   ?    atrophied

5. It was completely empty except for the pulse, which seemed a tangible thing, and a round __________ exactly in the center.

   
   
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   1.   ?    assuaged
   2.   ?    dais
   3.   ?    corrosive
   4.   ?    corridor

6. Charles sat there on the floor of the __________ whimpering, not a small boy's sound, but a fearful, animal noise.

   
   
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   1.   ?    fallible
   2.   ?    corridor
   3.   ?    dais
   4.   ?    omnipotent

7. "I am a human being, and a very __________ one. But I agree with Calvin."

   
   
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   1.   ?    ominous
   2.   ?    atrophied
   3.   ?    sinister
   4.   ?    fallible

8. Disappointment was as dark and __________ in her as the Black Thing.

   
   
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   1.   ?    corrosive
   2.   ?    assuaged
   3.   ?    sinister
   4.   ?    ominous

9. She was frozen, and Charles Wallace was being devoured by IT, and her __________ father was doing nothing.

   
   
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   1.   ?    assuaged
   2.   ?    fallible
   3.   ?    ominous
   4.   ?    omnipotent

10. Its silvery roof pulsed with __________ light.

    
    
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    1.   ?    dais
    2.   ?    ominous
    3.   ?    omnipotent
    4.   ?    corrosive