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Which picture best represents the definition?

Vex: to feel angry, annoyed, or extremely frustrated

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Acute means

• something that is very pretty

• something that is small

• sharp; keen

• It is an angle in math.

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This picture best represents audacity. What do you think that meaning of this word is?

• bold, shameless, daring

• cute and cuddly

• afraid

• shy

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Conceive means:

• to understand something that is complex

• to be happy all the time

• There is no such word as conceive.

• to think of

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Crevice is

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Which picture best represents derision?

Derision means to ridicule.

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Which picture best represent hypocritical?

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Which picture best represents stealthily?

Stealthily: cautiously; secretly

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Which picture best represents stifled?

stifled means smothered

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Vehemently: (v-him-mint-ly) means with intense emotion

Which picture best represents this vocabulary word?

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His nonstop talking about nothing would ____ a saint.

• stifle

• vex

• conceive

• audacity

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This picture is an example of a ___________.

• crevice

• a rock stuck between two mountains.

• crevise

• I have no idea.

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Both women _____ deny the charges against them.

• vexed

• stifled

• derision

• vehemently

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Which definition of acute do you think that we would use in ELA?

• something that is pretty

• to smother

• sharp or keen

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He gave a snort of ________.

• derision

• snot

• acute

• I have no idea.

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He had the __________ to tell me that I was wrong, when in fact, I did give the correct answer.

• vexed

• vehemently

• acute

• audacity

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I cannot _________ that you are standing on my desk. You know that it is not save nor is it allowed.

• conceive

• audacity

• acute

• stifled

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The figure was always just ahead of him, crouched low but quick and _____

• vehemently

• vex

• stealthy

• crevice

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_{Of course I was wrong; it would be __________ to pretend otherwise.}

• audacity

• vehemently

• hypocritical

• derision

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She _____ another yawn and tried very hard to look interested in the lesson.

• stifled

• acute

• audacity

• vexed