Keystone English 10

Looking out the window I watched a pair of squirrels _____ playfully through the branches of the tree that hangs over my house.

• sully

• disparage

• frolic

• pensive

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

His first movie was so successful, it seemed to receive _____ from all the critics and enthusiasm from all the fans.

• plaudits

• abysmal

• caricature

• pensive

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The team's performance was so ______ that the fans started booing, and many eventually left the game early to avoid seeing the ugly defeat.

• frugal

• pensive

• olfactory

• abysmal

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a person or thing that takes something from someone or something else and does not do anything to earn it or deserve it

• Caricature

• Parasite

• Abysmal

• Pensive

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

conservative and careful with money; cautious; prudent

• Disparage

• Frugal

• Frolic

• Olfactory

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

someone or something that is very exaggerated in a funny or foolish way

• Parasite

• Plaudits

• Pensive

• Caricature

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

of or relating to the sense of smell

• Sully

• Frugal

• Olfactory

• Pensive

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Sully

• to play and run about happily

• to make soiled or tarnished: defile

• to belittle; to treat something as having little value

• an animal or plant that lives in or on another animal or plant and gets food or protection from it

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Pensive

• lost in serious or sad thought

• enthusiastic approval —usually used in plural

• to belittle; to treat something as having little value

• embarrassingly bad

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Disparage

• to play and run about happily

• to make soiled or tarnished: defile

• lost in serious or sad thought

• to belittle; to treat something as having little value

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4