Fall Semester Vocabulary Review - Unit 1-10 -- 8th grade

In order to hear my phone conversations, I asked my sister to _________ the sound of her television show.

• foster

• reverberate

• mute

• recede

Tags

CCSS.L.1.2D

CCSS.L.K.2C

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Our new nanny had a beautiful smile and a cheery ___________ that made us confident she would be pleasant to the children.

• grimace

• disposition

• despondency

• irascibility

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The book was a series of __________, each describing life in a different European country.

• atrocities

• rejoinders

• vignettes

• reprisals

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Modern blue jeans ________ from men who worked in mines who developed denim pants because of their comfort and durability.

• impelled

• derived

• commemorated

• evoked

Looking at pictures of my childhood made me realize how much time has _________ since then.

• perpetuated

• elapsed

• impeded

• embellished

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The constant ______ of the celebrity's actions by the paparazzi was obnoxious and an invasion of privacy.

• profusion

• immersion

• surveillance

• phenomenon

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

In order to understand the way of Egyptian life completely, I __________ myself in their culture by moving there and getting a job.

• encompassed

• surpassed

• immersed

• pervaded

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

I felt the warmth of the fire _______ my benumbed body.

• immerse

• instill

• encompass

• assimilate

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

My boss asked me to prepare a _____ demonstration of my ideas for the company's new product.

• strident

• panoramic

• pungent

• mute

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

I almost gagged when I smelled the ________ stench of her breath.

• strident

• ogling

• mute

• pungent

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4