Vocabulary Stretch - Citing Evidence with Spider-Man

Vocabulary Stretch - Citing Evidence with Spider-Man

Practice Vocabulary from the iReady lesson

Cite

quote (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work

delight

please (someone) greatly

Multiple Select

Spider-Man is a popular comic book superhero that continutes to ________________ his fans some 50 years after his creation.

• delight

• cite

creation

the action or process of bringing something into existence

autobiography

an account of a person's life written by that person.

Multiple Select

Stan Lee created Spider-Man and wrote an _________________ called Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee.

• creation

• autobiography

version

a particular form of something differing in certain respects from an earlier form or other forms of the same type of thing

realistic

having or showing a sensible and practical idea of what can be achieved or expected.

Multiple Select

He wanted to create a hero who had a ___________ life in addition to superpowers.

• version

• realistic

publisher

a person or company that prints books

adolescent

a person transitioning from childhood to adulthood

Multiple Select

He would have all the normal problems of an ________________.

• publisher

• adolescent

disguise

give (someone or oneself) a different appearance in order to conceal one's identity.

comedy

professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.

Multiple Select

In his ____________, The Spider would help stop crime.

• disguise

• comedy

illustrate

provide (a book, newspaper, etc.) with pictures.

incorporated

take in or contain (something) as part of a whole; include

Multiple Select

He slowly _____________ his own style.

• illustrate

• incorporated

popularity

the state or condition of being liked, admired, or supported by many people.

paraphrase

a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else.

Multiple Select

The characters gradually took on a new look, and the Spider-Man comic strip continued to increase in _____________.

• popularity

• paraphrase

freelance

working for different companies at different times rather than being permanently employed by one company.

abysmal

of poor quality

Multiple Select

Lee claims that Goodman thought Spider-Man was an ___________ idea.

• freelance

• abysmal

reassigned

appoint (someone) to a different job or task.

desire

a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen.

Multiple Select

He says he later _________________ the job to artist Steve Ditko.

• reassigned

• desire

motif

theme or idea

origin

the point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived

Multiple Select

Raphael and Spurgeon explain, "Stan Lee expressed the desire to do a teenage superhero using the spider ________. Jack Kirby had long wanted to do an insect-related superhero".

• motif

• origin

effective

successful in producing a desired or intended result.

frailty

weakness

Multiple Select

Ditko was nearly as sharp as Kirby when it came to shaping characters in ways that would make them ____________ on the page.

• effective

• frailty

cooperative

involving mutual assistance in working toward a common goal; working together

direct quote

Words exactly as they appear in the text; with quotation marks at beginning and the end of the text

Multiple Select

But during the early 1960s, superhero comic books became extremely popular through this ______________ process.

• cooperative

• direct quote