7th Grade 5-A-Day Language Week 16

Choose the CORRECTLY spelled word.

• chapparone
• chaperone

Identify the figure of speech: The desert highway was a ribbon stretching to the horizon.

• idiom
• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole

Identify the following: utterly useless now

• phrase
• dependent clause
• independent clause

Swimming out in the sea, the current grew stronger.

• dangling modifier
• misplaced modifier

Which word has a POSITIVE connotation?

• domineering
• oppressive
• arrogant
• None of the above

Choose the root word in conspirator.

• con-
• spirat
• -or

Choose the suffix in conspirator.

• con-
• spirat
• -or

Choose the prefix in conspirator.

• con-
• spirat
• -or

Which word means "acting or thinking in an unusual way"?

• depose
• exotic
• scrutinize
• eccentric

Which word means "To remove from office or position, especially from a high office"?

• depose
• exotic
• scrutinize
• eccentric