Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Rather than be involved in clandestine meetings, they did everything quite openly.

What is the meaning of clandestine?

• loud

• secret

• sloppy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.5.4A

Because the conflagration was aided by wind, it was so destructive that every building in the area was completely burned to the ground.

What is the meaning of conflagration?

• earthquake

• massive fire

• hurricane

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

When Meagan was the interim president of the garden club, she handled all the club business for the five months before a new president was elected.

What is the meaning of interim?

• temporary

• permanent

• unprofessional

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

I was so parched, I drank an entire glass of water in one gulp.

• hungry

• thirsty

• sleepy

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Tanya loved her dad, but she wondered why she was so organized when he was so haphazard. A person who is haphazard is-

• lost

• lovable

• worried

• disorganized

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Tonya was relaxing with a magazine when her father walked in, looking perturbed and sounding annoyed, too. What words give you clues to the meaning of perturbed?

• can you help me

• her father walked in

• sounding annoyed, too

• relaxing with a magazine

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

In late 2006, apiarists in the U.S. began reporting that their honey bees were dying. Some of these beekeepers lost 90 percent of their hives. What is the best definition of apiarists?

• hives

• problems

• honeybees

• beekeepers

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

However, without a known cause or cure, CCD remains a conundrum. A conundrum is a-

• cost of food.

• known cause.

• puzzling problem.

• cure for a disease.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.3.4D

Read the passage below. Which word or words best helps you understand the meaning of the word obedient?

The obedient child always followed her mother's requests. That night, she brushed her teeth, folded her clothes, and went to bed before her mother had to come in and remind her.

• Followed her mother's requests

• Folded her clothes

• Brushed her teeth

• That night

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.3.4D

The fifty pound pumpkin was gargantuan in size.

What does gargantuan mean?

• Small

• Large

• Average

• Colorful

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D