Vocabulary List 1

Choose the best definition for accentuate

• To make less noticeable

• To mask something

• To make something more noticeable

• to notice something

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Choose the best example sentence for : Accentuate

• My dog ran away and I accentuate her so much.

• Manny speaks two languages with an accentuate.

• Maria's enormous bag accentuated how tiny she was.

• Nathan wears a mask to accentuate his handsome face.

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What is alliteration?

• words that rhyme

• giving inanimate objects human capabilities

• a repeated consonant sound occurring at the beginning of words

• an extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which group of words best fits this sentence for alliteration?

Tony the ____ ____ the ____.

• Tiger, hid, takis

• Tiger, ate, takis

• Tiger, stole, takis

• Tiger, took, takis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Choose the best definition for analogy

• A comparison between two things for explanation or clarification

• A comparison between four things for analysis

• A comparison between anything number of things to make an argument

• A comparison that doesn't make sense

Complete this analogy:

teacher is to school as doctor is to________

• nurse

• health

• person

• hospital

Definition: to desire something eagerly, especially something important or in the future.

I _____________ to be the world's greatest weightlifter, so I go to the gym every day.

Synonyms aim, long for, yearn

• aquire

• aspire

• chorus

• conjure

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

This verb means to deceive or hoodwink someone.

• camouflage

• bamboozle

• accentuate

• bizarre

The __________ boy would not shut up during our quiz in English today. I probably failed the quiz because he was so distracting and loud.

• boisterious

• bosterous

• boistirous

• boisterous

The deceptive salesman attempted to _________ my sister when she purchased her first car, but she wasn't duped.

• nuisance
• bamboozle
• deign
• cower

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F