The Landlady Vocabulary

It seems like people who are wealthy have a lot of ____________________ cars.

• conjure

• swanky

• emanate

• dithering

• blemished

Answer explanation

swanky (adjective): stylish and expensive

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

agreeable, pleasing, nice

• Congenial

• Swanky

• Emanate

• Compelling

• Peculiar

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

teasing someone with something they can't have"

• Dainty

• Tantalizing

• Earnest

• Lapse

• Facade

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Heat is ______________ from this fire.

• emanating

• inclining

• tantalizing

• lapsing

• blemishing

Answer explanation

emanate (verb): to spread out from a source

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

It is obvious that this boy is...

• congenial

• rapacious

• compelling

• threshold

• earnest

Answer explanation

rapacious (adjective): aggressively greedy

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

quick and energetic

• brisk

• swanky

• emanate

• tantalizing

• dainty

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

sincere, intense, or serious in purpose

• earnestly

• tantalizing

• swanky

• brisk

• congenial

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a small mark or flaw which spoils the appearance of something.

• blemish

• facades

• porter

• compulsion

• brisk

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Emma felt a great _______ to open the mystery box, but she somehow managed to resist.

• emanate

• rapacious

• compulsion

• lapse

• earnest

Answer explanation

compulsion (noun): an irresistible urge to behave in a certain way

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

After barking for hours, the exhausted puppy finally ______ into silence.

• compelled

• lapsed

• conjured

• emanated

• swamped

Answer explanation

lapse (verb): to begin doing something for a short period of time

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4