Vocabulary Workshop Diagnostic Test

The discordant noises came bellowing out of the Chorus classroom. Discordant means:

• to develop gradually

• to float or hang suspended

• lacking in harmony

• to dance on someone's grave

When the power failed, we had to _______________in the dark to find a working flashlight.

• oblique

• grope

• servile

• preclude

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

My essay includes a long _______________from a speech by Sojourner Truth.

• decree

• legendary

• excerpt

• tether

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

Authors hope that their notes, descriptions, and character sketches will ________________into a successful book.

• collaborate

• evolve

• invalidate

• perspective

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The king issued a royal ________________ which banned the celebration of all holidays in his kingdom.

• vigil

• decree

• excerpt

• citadel

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

I opened the blinds just enough to let a few golden rays of sunshine ___ the darkened room. 

• nullify
• endow
• infiltrate  
• convey

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The prosecutor sought to prove that the defendant had ___ the victim to death with a fireplace poker. 

• plummeted
• abutted
• belittled
• bludgeoned 

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

plummet is to down as 

• sink is to up
• flit is to down
• soar is to up
• descend is to up

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

menial is to master as 

• prodigy is to marvel
• crony is to enemy
• proxy is to agent
• turncoat is to renegade 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Hollywood studios _______ theaters with big-budget action movies during the summer season, so by fall, we are tired of seeing them.

• banter
• glut
• veer
• minimize

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4