Literary Allusions Quiz 3

A self-satisfied person concerned chiefly with business and middle-class ideals whose unthinking attachment to its business makes model of narrow-mindedness.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

Gigantic, enormous, on a large scale, enlarged.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

To speak or behave clumsily or faltering, to make a humming or droning sound.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

One who gains affluence or recognition after obscurity and neglect.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.9

A libertine, profligate, a man obsessed with seducing women.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.9

Someone overly idealistic to the point of having impossible dreams.

Blindly or misleadingly optimistic; a pedantic old tutor.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

Full of wit and bawdy humor.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Anything that threatens or destroys its creator.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A faithful and willing attendant, ready to turn his hand to anything.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6