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Everyone else at the party wanted garbage pizza but Tim because he detested vegetables.

What does detested mean?

• enjoyed

• dislike

• adored

• lack

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Grandpa didn't know that Susie was coming along on the fishing trip, and now he had to alter his plans.

What does alter mean?

• turn

• continue

• destroy

• change

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

When Kiki got a tiny cut on her pinky finger, she got all melodramatic and began sobbing and demanding a doctor.

What does melodramatic mean?

• being hurt

• being calm

• being exaggerated

• being fake

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

As Tommy walked home with the money from the church he had stolen in his pocket, powerful feeling of remorse bubbled in his stomach.

What does remorse mean?

• to feel bad about something

• to feel hungry

• to feel satisfaction

• to feel joy

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

When the other moms heard about how Charlene had won the baking contest, her email box was flooded with inquiries for her award winning muffin recipe.

What does inquires mean?

• to ignore

• to reply

• to answer

• to seek information

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4D

The children were perched on the edge of the sofa arms, waiting to hop off and land on the next unlucky passerby.

What does perched mean?

• to jump

• to balance

• to rest on something

• to lay

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Jeremiah joked around so much that when he told others about the accident that had occurred, they didn't believe that he was being earnest.

What does earnest mean?

• Honest

• indifferent

• unthoughtful

• determined

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

With the field torn up by the players' cleats, and the cold rain falling in waves, conditions on the playing field were dismal.

What does dismal mean?

• pleasant

• cheerful

• very bad

• hopeful

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

My grandma's demeanor was such that people often thought she was being rude when she was being rude when she was just being honest.

What does demeanor mean?

• dress

• feeling

• behavior

• communication

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The lady decided that it was tea time and so, by jingling a tiny silver bell, she beckoned her servants to attend.

What does beckoned mean?

• pushed

• signaled

• replied

• yelled

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4