Unit 11 Vocabulary Quiz-7th Grade

When I walked up on the wild pig, I was surprised to find it was really quite ______.

• blatant

• docile

• infamous

• aspire

The flag is the ______ of our nation.

• pelt

• aspire

• archetype

• Emblem

After separating from its booster rocket, the capsule began to _____ through space.

• hurtle

• arbitrate

• infamous

• docile

The force of the truck caused the car to ____________________ over the bridge.

• hurtle

• acrid

• casualty

• smolder

The student showed ________________ when she stood up to the bully.

• Prowess

• aspiration

• docile

• addiction

Betty has become so ___ to soap operas she talks of nothing else.

• addicted

• mirthful

• blatant

• prowess

In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet says that her knife will be an umpire, making the ultimate judgement about what happens to her. She says the knife will __________________ what she does next.

• arbitrate

• pelt

• infamous

• mirth

The great white shark has been made ____________ by the movie Jaws.

• Infamous

• docile

• blatant

• pelt

When her arch enemy tripped in front of the cute boy, her ______ was so great that she was in tears.

• snare

• Mirth

• arbitrator

• hurtle

To pelt means...

• to defend yourself

• to persuade someone to do something

• to gamble or risk

• to throw a stream of things