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Word Meanings

Authored by Nicole Osborn

English

9th Grade

CCSS covered

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Flooded with spotlights – the focus of all attention – the new Miss America began her year-long reign. She was the cynosure of all eyes for the rest of the evening.

exception

center of attention

self-centered person

attraction

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The mountain pass was a tortuous road, winding and twisting like a snake around the trees of the mountainside.

rocky

painful

depressing

curving

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The children were as different as day and night. He was a lively conversationalist, but she was reserved and taciturn.

quietly uncommunicative

obnoxiously loud

openly opinionated

extremely funny

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The lugubrious wails of the gypsies matched the dreary whistling of the wind in the allbut-deserted cemetery.

lively

sing-song

gloomy

frightening

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

During those first bewildering weeks, the thoughts of a college freshman drift back to high school where he was “in,” knew everyone, and felt at home. A feeling of nostalgia sweeps over him.

boredom

anxiety

remembrance

homeliness

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

She told her friend, “I’m through with blind dates forever. What a dull evening! I was bored every minute. The conversation was absolutely vapid.”

uninteresting

slow

rediculous

thrilling

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

My brother said, “I just freed myself from a very loquacious history professor. All he seemed to want was an audience.”

pretentious

grouchy

talkative

worried

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

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