Multiple Meaning Words

Read the sentence. Choose the right definition that fits the underlined word.

As the magician rose up into the light, the elephant blew its horn.

• a showy and often fragrant white, yellow, pink or red flower that grows on a prickly shrub.

• moderate purplish red

• to get up from lying, kneeling, or sitting

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CCSS.L.5.5C

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Perhaps it was a joke, he thought, perhaps the magazine often printed spoof items.

• something said or done to cause amusement

• a very short story with an ending that is funny

• something not worthy of being taken seriously

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Read the sentence. Choose the right definition that fits the underlined word:

"Where is Hagrid?," he said out loud.

• at, in, or to a place

• at or in what way or direction

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Read the sentence. Choose the right definition that fits the underlined word:

My mom said, "Don't lie it is a debt."

• sin

• something owed to another

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CCSS.L.5.5C

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We need to go to the Ministry of Magic.

• in the direction of

• into the action of

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Read the sentence. Choose the right definition that fits the underlined word:

Oh, she hoped Manly was right.

• just being good

• the right hand or the right side

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CCSS.L.5.5C

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She felt the slender, smooth stone in her left hand.

• gracefully thin

• narrow for its height

• very little

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CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Read the sentence. Choose the right definition that fits the underlined word:

"Just great! Now how are we going to get out of this place."

• a very large size

• long, continued

• something good

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Read the sentence. Choose the right definition that fits the underlined word:

He sawed the piece of wood in half.

• a tool with a tooth-edged blade for cutting hard material

• a machine that operates a toothed blade

• to cut something like wood

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Read the sentence. Choose the right definition that fits the underlined word:

We need a way out of New Orleans.

• the course traveled from one place to another

• the manner in which something is done or happens

• a course of action

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CCSS.L.5.5C