New Spork City Vocabulary Review

Picture Matching

Match the words in the box to the pictures below.

eyebrow, skyline, out of breath, roll your eyes, skyscraper,

cobblestone, barefoot, spork, steep

1: ________________ 2: ________________ 3: ________________

4: ________________ 5: ________________ 6: ________________

7: ________________ 8: ________________ 9: ________________

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Definition multiple choice

Circle (or mark) the word (or phrase) that is best described by the definitions below.

1. To turn your eyes up to the sky. This is a way to show you are impatient or

frustrated.

roll your eyes get used to apologize deposit

2. Like the 'foot' this is the part of a thing that it sits on. (A monitor, television,

telephone)

base get a feel for out of breath get used to

3. A train in a city that drives underground.

tenant subway get a feel for eventually

4. Like 'lean the ropes' this means to learn enough about something to be

comfortable with it.

notice adult get a feel for base

5. A big word for 'to say you are sorry about something.'

deposit catch your breath apologize notice

6. This verb means that something takes all of a person's energy. Parents try to do

this with kids.

out of breath wear out seem wise

7. The process of becoming comfortable with something that was new, so that it is

now 'normal' for you.

get used to seem skyscraper apologize

8. This word explains the appearance that something makes, not its reality.

catch your breath seem eyebrow wear out

9. This describes a person who has a mix of intelligence, experience and

knowledge.

catch your breath get used to wise base

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10. This describes a person who was very active and now finds it hard to breathe.

base get used to get a feel for out of breath

11. Like 'with time,' this means that something happened after a long wait.

subway catch your breath seem eventually

12. To take a break after being active, until your breathing (and your heartbeat)

become normal again.

get used to catch your breath spend seem

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Fill in the blank

Fit the words in the grey box into the spaces in the sentences below. Each of the words

should only fit into one of the sentences.

fall in love, eyebrow, community, adult, view, adventure, notice,

tenant, high, wide, examine, barefoot

1. Denise doesn't like it when she sees people walking

____________________________ in the park. She worries about broken glass

and dog poop.

2. My father always lifts just one ____________________________ when he is

skeptical of something.

3. I know the teacher is like a child, but he is over thirty years old and clearly an

____________________________.

4. Before our children move out of the house, we want to go to South Africa on

vacation and have an ____________________________ as a family.

5. Joel is very attentive when he drives in the evening, because he wants to

____________________________ any deer by the road before they can come

into the road.

6. Bruce's children love to climb in trees, but he cannot watch. He hates to see them

so ____________________________ above the ground and worries they will

fall.

7. No, don't buy an SUV. I think it is too ____________________________ to park

in our garage!

8. In Berlin, you should go up the TV Tower or the Siegesäule to get a good

____________________________ over the city.

9. You should ____________________________ every line in your contract to

make sure you don't sign anything too crazy.

10. My father doesn't own his apartment. He is just a

____________________________ in it.

11. Randy and Lori love living in a small town. It's a very friendly

____________________________ where neighbors help each other.

12. My daughter is seventeen and never had a boyfriend. She really wants to

____________________________, but she thinks the boys who like her are all

stupid.