Grade 8 Unit 2

Grade 8 Unit 2

quest

A long search for something that is difficult to find:

A quest for the meaning of life

Multiple Choice

How many restaurants have you visited in your ------ to find the perfect hamburger?

• parallel

• quest

parallel

If two or more lines, streets, etc. are parallel, the distance between them is the same all along their length:

Draw a pair of parallel lines.

Hills Road is parallel to Mill Road

Multiple Choice

I read a science fiction story about a ---------world much like Earth but where computers have enslaved humans.

• parallel

• quest

justify

To give or to be a good reason for:

[ + -ing verb ] I can't really justify taking another day off work.

Are you sure that these measures are justified?

Multiple Choice

The trip is only two days, so I can't ------bringing two bags.

• intensify

• justify

intensify

To become greater, more serious, or more extreme, or to make something do this:

Fighting around the capital has intensified in the last few hours.

Multiple Choice

We watch scary movies in the dark to ------ the experience.

• justify

• intensify