Examination Day Vocabulary

Examination Day Vocabulary

by Nicole Craig

​Shroud

• NOUN

• ​a thing that envelops or obscures something.

• ​a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial.

Multiple Choice

In order for the ruse to be successful, you must shroud your true intensions. 

What does shroud mean in this sentence? 

• blanket

• mask

• invent

• make-up

​Vexation

• NOUN

• ​the state of being annoyed, frustrated, or worried.

Multiple Choice

Among the many things that vex me, what angers me most is your disrespect.  Which part of the sentence is a context clue for the meaning of vex? 

• Among the many things

• angers me most

• your disrespect.

​Speculate

• ​verb

• ​form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence.

• ​reflect, reason, think

​Quotient

• the degree to which a specific quality or characteristic exists.

• ​math quotient a result obtained by dividing one quantity by another.

• A child is born with a certain intelligence quotient.

• The output of the expert system is a trust quotient, in the range from zero to one.

Multiple Choice

What is the message that this cartoon is trying to convey? 

• Everyone has their own strengths. 

• Tests do not always reveal every strength. 

• You might have great strengths that are not detected by one particular test. 

• Each one of these answers in this multiple choice question is accurate. 

​Interred

• Verb

• ​place (a corpse) in a grave or tomb, typically with funeral rites.

Multiple Choice

Some people choose to be laid to rest in a coffin.  Some people do not want to be interred in a traditional way when they die.  Some people want to be cremated, some cremated remains are placed in a biodegradable urn buried under a tree. Others are laid to rest in a mausoleum, above ground, in the 'Cities of the Dead'.  What is the main idea of this paragraph. 

• Some coffins are not buried. 

• Some people do not like the idea of a coffin. 

• There are many ways someone can be interred. 

• Cremation is one way people's remains are laid to rest.