Choose the most appropriate synonym of the underlined word.
1. The young seagull was alone on his ledge.
(a) sill
(b) window
(c) nest
(d) lift
2. The great expanse of sea stretched a long way down.
(a) express
(b) expense
(c) stretch
(d) vision
3. He felt certain that his wings would never support him.
(a) curtain
(b) screen
(c) sure
(d) unsure
4. His brothers and his little sister ran to the brink.
(a) bark
(b) sea
(c) water
(d) edge
5. He failed to muster up courage to take that plunge.
(a) dust
(b) gather
(c) strength
(d) marvel
6. He saw his brothers and sister perfecting in the art of flight.
(a) achieving
(b) trying
(c) finishing
(d) balancing
7. He saw his older brother devour his first catch.
(a) consume
(b) devein
(c) divide
(d) smell
8. His parents circled around raising a proud cackle.
(a) cough
(b) screech
(c) walk
(d) tackle
9. The whole family walked about on the big plateau.
(a) highland
(b) pinnacle
(c) lake
(d) valley
10. All his siblings laughed at his cowardice.
(a) weakness
(b) craze
(c) cooperation
(d) awkwardness
11. He even gnawed at the dried pieces of eggshell.
(a) gasped
(b) annoyed
(c) chewed
(d) devoured
12. He then trotted back and forth from one end of the ledge to the other.
(a) trailed
(b) scurried
(c) jolted
(d) rolled
13. His long gray legs stepped daintily to reach his parents.
(a) elegantly
(b) drearily
(c) dancing
(d) lethargically
14. The ledge ended in a sheer fall of precipice with the sea beneath.
(a) steep
(b) gentle
(c) clean
(d) distant
15. The precipice was sheer.
(a) cliff
(b) precipitation
(c) effervescence
(d) recap
16. His father was preening the feathers on his white back.
(a) picking
(b) cleaning
(c) screening
(d) wilting
17. She was standing on a little high hump on the plateau.
(a) mound
(b) dip
(c) hollow
(d) table
18. Her white breast thrust forward.
(a) shove
(b) burst
(c) backward
(d) thirsted
19. The sight of the food maddened him.
(a) light
(b) bring
(c) blight
(d) view
20. He scraped his beak now and again to whet it!
(a) rubbed
(b) screened
(c) wet
(d) sharpened
21. He uttered a low cackle.
(a) expressed
(b) screamed
(c) mocked
(d) udder
22. She screamed back mockingly.
(a) admiringly
(b) scornfully
(e) meekly
(d) brightly
23. He kept calling plaintively.
(a) plainly
(b) blatantly
(c) sadly
(d) palpably
24. She was just opposite to him, abreast of the ledge.
(a) well-informed
(b) tuned
(c) approved
(d) disapproved
25. His mother had swooped upwards.
(a) swung
(b) leapt
(c) fell
(d) danced