Gatsby Ch. 7-9 Vocab Review

No one got to play the Xbox because the child refused to ___ the Xbox controller and let the other children have a chance to play.

• relinquish

• precipitate

• surmise

• distort

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If you plan for every ___, you will always be ready for anything that happens, even a zombie apocalypse.

• malice

• contingency

• portentous

• vicarious

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Tom treats everyone who isn’t from his social class with ___ because they are, in his mind, nobodies from nowhere and are unworthy of being treated politely or with respect.

• superfluous

• garrulous

• rancor

• dejection

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Everything in the painting was so life-like and ___ like you could touch the flowers and feel the cool waterfall.

• presumptuous

• incorruptible

• perceptible

• tangible

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If you knowingly spread lies about someone or ___ them, you can face legal trouble and be sued.

• elude

• slander

• surmise

• recede

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Carrie Underwood became immensely popular for her song about __ towards a cheating boyfriend and destroying his truck.

• solidarity

• rancor

• forlorn

• malice

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We all know one person who only wins games because they play ___ and cheat.

• transitory

• unscrupulously

• fortuitously

• circumstantially

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

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The time stamp on the receipt ___ Betty’s story that she had been at the store late at night for popcorn and other snacks.

• surmises

• corroborates

• eludes

• recedes

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Steve’s ___ little boy talked and talked without stopping, we wondered if he’d ever run out of words.

• grotesque

• portentous

• vicarious

• garrulous

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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CCSS.RI.8.4

___ and dejected, Nate couldn’t find his phone after searching the house for hours; it seemed like he would never find it.

• Unscrupulous

• Reverent

• Complacent

• Forlorn

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4