Vocabulary Level F, unit 2

To bring about suddenly is to :

• modify

• stifle

• precipitate

• expostulate

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Which of the following would you NOT use to describe an approach or setting in which rules are not strictly enforced?

• lax

• lenient

• permissive

• stringent

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

If you commemorate a period of one thousand years, you mark a:

• decade

• century

• bicentennial

• millennium

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Someone who represents the height of fashion might be referred to as its:

• enemy

• epitome

• hiatus

• umbrage

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

She began by eliciting our impressions of advertising and then went on to address our negative opinions with great aplomb.

aplomb means:

• with a lack of self-confidence

• with great poise

• in a halting manner

• in a humorous manner

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

to drivel means:

• persuasion

• facts

• questions

• nonsense

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Which of the following could NOT be used to replace bombastic?

• overblown

• pompous

• appropriate

• inflated

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

To exhort is to :

• urge strongly

• ask politely

• discourage strongly

• forbid

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Infringe means:

• encroach

• improve

• embellish

• border

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

If commercials ingratiate themselves with viewers, the viewers find them:

• dull

• offensive

• agreeable

• instructive

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6