Hitting the Big League Fastball Vocabulary Quiz

Read the passage. What evidence helps the reader understand the meaning of the word grim?

• I screamed and swerved.

• In the blink of an eye, a deer ran out in front of me.

• The raindrops pounded the windshield and the wipers could barely keep up.

• I had little hope and began to despair.

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Read the dictionary entry for dense. Which sentence best uses definition #2?

• The dawn brought cool air and dense fog.

• The cake was overly sweet and dense.

• I was too dense to get the joke.

• For a while the crowd was less dense, but suddenly everyone rushed forward in one direction.

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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

"Gradually winter released its grip and flowers erupted from the ground in celebration of spring." In the context of this sentence, which is the best definition of RELEASED?

• to free from constraint or confinement

• a grant of permission, as to publish, use, or sell something.

• some device or agency for effecting such liberation.

• to go or come before

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Read the dictionary entry for foul. Which definition most closely matches foul is used in this sentence: "Sanchez hit three foul balls before connecting with a line drive to right field."?

• Definition 1

• Definition 2

• Definition 3

• Definition 4

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CCSS.L.5.5C

What are three examples of a process?

• staring at a wall

• diagnosing a patient with an illness

• sleeping comfortably in a bed

• analyzing your financial budget

• driving a car

Which sentence does NOT use the word precisely correctly?

• She didn't want to, but Jessi showed up precisely at eight the next morning.

• More precisely, it catalogs and tracks them and then allows you to communicate with them easily.

• It has precisely the same limitation as the treatment of form and emotion; it cannot change as the work proceeds.

• The publication of inferior research results is of precisely value.

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CCSS.L.3.2F

Part A. Read the passage. Which sentence below contains multiple technical terms specific to space exploration?

• Their mission, to build the fastest airplane in the world, on that could fly faster than the speed of sound.

• The speed of sound is about 760 miles per hour.

• The exact number varies depending on temperature, altitude, and humidity.

• Scientists used to think that flying faster than the speed of sound was impossible!

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CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Part B. What is the effect of the technical terms in Part A?

• The technical language used makes the paragraph easier to read.

• The technical language used communicates the complexity of the work the women supported.

• The technical language used establishes the author as an authority on the subject.

• The technical language used helps the author explain why human computers were important.

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CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4