In the popular TV show 'Sheriff's Tales', the sheriff's office has ____ over each town in the fictional county of Westbridge.

• election

• jurisdiction

• dquanimity

• animosity

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CCSS.L.8.5A

Match the following statements with their meanings.

• Change in form or nature

• decapitation

• A place of temporary punishment

• grandlioquence

• Speaking in a pompous manner

• mutation

• Off with her head

• purgatory

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A matchmaker is someone who pairs single women with ___ bachelors.

• mutable

• tenuous

• eligible

• grandiose

Some people write a comment on a post and wish they could ____ their comment later.

• expunge

• puglist

• specter

• attenuate

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CCSS.L.3.2F

During harvest time, workers ____ apples in the orchard.

• congregate

• pedal

• collect

• recapitulate

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Being polite is a ______ character trait.

• compunction

• expedite

• auspicious

• pugilist

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

With each gold medal won at the Olympics, the public witnessed the athlete's (a)   .

• equanimity
• aggrandizement
• presentiment
• jurisdiction

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

The (a)   star always came up with grand plans that featured him as the center of attention.

• grandiose
• gregarious
• eligible
• pugilist

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The directions said to take the overpass, so they looked for a ______.

• pedestrian

• pedal

• viaduct

• impediment

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Casper the friendly _______ was invisible but always seemed to help others.

• specter

• sacrilege

• mutation

• dissension

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6