(M) CFA #3 (RL 8.4)

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Hint: Determine the connotation (positive or negative) through context clues.

My friend is very careful about spending money. I admire that, so I call him ______________.

• thrifty

• stingy

• miserly

Choose the word that best completes the sentence. Hint: Determine the connotation (positive or negative) through context clues.

Although the problem was difficult to resolve, Sandra and John were ________________ in searching for an answer. Their teacher was quite proud.

• persistent

• stubborn

• bullheaded

Mark was sick of getting a dozen annoying e-mails with jokes from Sally every day. He wrote a sloppy reply letting her know that he wasn't allowed to receive silly e-mails at school.

What does the word "sick" suggest Mark was feeling as it is used in the first sentence of this story?

• full

• nauseous

• fed up with

Dale kept telling his mother the matter was grave. They had to report the person that hit their car today.

What is the dictionary meaning of the word grave in the sentence above?

• curious

• boring

• serious

From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet which of these lines contains an allusion?

• And therefore have I little talked of love

• Immoderately she weeps for her cousin's death

• For Venus smiles not in a house of tears