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The 5th Wave - Vocabulary Set #2

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  • The ____________ cover allowed for them plants to get the warmth they needed to grow while being safe from animals.
    diaphanous
  • impossible is a synonym or antonym of which word?
    probable
  • Because Germany was bombing England none stop, The Brits lived most of their life __________.
    subterraneanly
  • the likelihood or possibility of something
    Probability
  • which word is similar to intermittently and why?
    Fitfully
  • The ship ____________ back and forth as the storm arrived.
    careened
  • Name something that can infest your food or body?
    roaches, flies, bacteria, viruses
  • To get back something that was taken from you
    retrive
  • Hypogynous is closely related in meaning to which word?
    Subterranean or subterraneous
  • . existing, situated, or operating below the earth's surface; underground.
    subterranean
  • the doctor recommended a period of ________________ for the athlete to recover from his flu.
    Convalescence
  • Who is most likely to wear hazmat suits and when might they wear them?
    Answers may vary
  • what are some aversion tactics that people use to avoid eye contact or avoid talking to others?
    Answers may vary
  • Recuperate is most closely associated with which word?
    convalesce
  • Sway is is a synonym or antonym of which word?
    Synonym of careen
  • sounds or words that are voice in a single tone
    monotone
  • to do something to prevent something from happening
    To avert
  • How would you describe something that one can get rid of?
    Disposable
  • If you throw a ball, what will the dog do?
    Retrieve it
  • Returning to health after a physical or mental injury or illness
    Convalescent
  • streams of cloud, sometimes observed behind an airplane flying in clear cold humid air
    Contrail
  • what is the adverb form for the word that means one tone
    monotonically
  • so thin as to transmit light
    diaphanous
  • If you go out in to the desert, the ___________ that you will die is quite high.
    Probability
  • They went all the way around instead of taking the highway in order to ____________ the police.
    Avert
  • The government stole money and when the media finds out, there is going to be major ____________.
    blowback
  • The robot operated autonomously but they could not find the __________ that made this possible.
    Mechanism
  • His behaviour scared us because he would have ___________ episodes of rage followed by calm.
    Fitful
  • what are some things that most people dispose of?
    Answers may vary
  • They called in the exterminator because they had a serious rat ________________.
    Infestation
  • I could not hear him at all because his voice was so _____________.
    Monotone
  • repossession is a synonym or antonym of which word?
    retrieval
  • something that is happening not regularly but on and off
    Fitfully
  • a system or structure of moving parts that performs a particular function,
    Mechanism
  • While he could not see the enemy aircraft, he knew it was there because of its ________.
    contrail
  • Why was it so hard to figure out who was a human and who was an Other? (use a word to answer this)
    They had infested humans minds and bodies
  • the act of getting rid of something that you no longer need
    disposal