May Vocabulary Quiz

Define: precocious

• delayed in development

• advanced in development

• average

• argumentative

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The media often ________ rumors about movie stars that are not true. 

• deletes
• coerces
• perpetuates
• alienates

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Urgent; imperative

• fussy
• inefficient
• imperious
• dreadful

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

1.  adj. large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use. slow or complicated and therefore inefficient. 

• cumbersome
• accessible
• censure
• futile

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

(n.) a wry face, facial distortion; (v.) to make a wry face

• cursory

• nostalgia

• grimace

• holocaust

Select the correct spelling.

• curttail

• currtail

• cirtail

• curtail

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2E

CCSS.L.K.2D

CCSS.RF.1.3C

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.2.3B

orderly; systematic

• methodical

• adjacent

• elicit

• acclaim

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

to restrict, limit, or imprison

• infinity

• finite

• confine

• refine

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Bizarre or dreamlike.

• sureal
• suraell
• surrael
• surreal

makeshift; spontaneous

• impromptu 
• bandit
• licentious 
• constrained