Vocabulary activity for Chapters 11 - 12 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. Charles Wallace was crouched beside IT, his eyes still slowly twirling, his jaw still slack, as she had seen him before, with a tic in his forehead ___________ the revolting rhythm of IT.

   
   
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   1.   ?    imperceptibly
   2.   ?    reiterating
   3.   ?    permeating
   4.   ?    temporal

2. She turned to walk around it, and almost __________ her steps slowed.

   
   
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   1.   ?    ministrations
   2.   ?    imperceptibly
   3.   ?    bloopers
   4.   ?    vestige

3. With the last __________ of consciousness she jerked her mind and body.

   
   
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   1.   ?    ministrations
   2.   ?    vestige
   3.   ?    reiterating
   4.   ?    imperceptibly

4. "For the things which are seen are __________. But the things which are not seen are eternal."

   
   
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   1.   ?    bloopers
   2.   ?    vestige
   3.   ?    opaque
   4.   ?    temporal

5. The middle beast, a tremor of __________ in his words, said, "You aren't from a dark planet, are you?"

   
   
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   1.   ?    despondency
   2.   ?    trepidation
   3.   ?    permeating
   4.   ?    bloopers

6. "They have told us that our atmosphere is what they call __________, so that the stars are not visible, and then they were surprised that we know stars, that we know their music and the movements of their dance far better than beings like you who spend hours studying them through what you call telescopes."

   
   
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   1.   ?    trepidation
   2.   ?    bloopers
   3.   ?    vestige
   4.   ?    opaque

7. She gasped for breath, for breath in her own rhythm, not the __________ pulsing of IT.

   
   
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   1.   ?    despondency
   2.   ?    reiterating
   3.   ?    temporal
   4.   ?    permeating

8. Now the coldness that, under Aunt Beast's __________, had left her body had also left her mind.

   
   
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   1.   ?    vestige
   2.   ?    bloopers
   3.   ?    ministrations
   4.   ?    permeating

9. "I mean, the earth's my home, and I'd rather be there than anywhere in the world -- I mean, the universe -- and I can't wait to get back, but we make some awful __________ there."

   
   
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   1.   ?    opaque
   2.   ?    ministrations
   3.   ?    bloopers
   4.   ?    temporal

10. Such a wave of __________ came over Meg that she was no longer able to eat.

    
    
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    1.   ?    reiterating
    2.   ?    permeating
    3.   ?    despondency
    4.   ?    trepidation