A Modest Proposal Vocabulary Quiz

The effort or desire to equal or surpass another or others.

• Carcass

• Brevity

• Rudiments

• Emulation

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

To formally express disapproval.

• Dear

• Censure

• Parsimony

• Raiment

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

A dead body or corpse.

• Dainty

• Glutted

• Carcass

• Repine

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

To count or list.

• Parsimony

• Enumerate

• Salable

• Scrupulous

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Producing much fruit or offspring.

• Prolific

• Desponding

• Deplorable

• Alms

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Means to an end; solutions

• Expedients

• Dear

• Emutlation

• Salable

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Very concerned to avoid wrongdoing.

• Inclemencies

• Encumbrance

• Glutted

• Scrupulous

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment needed for survival.

• Salable

• Sustenance

• Rudiments

• Scrupulous

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Basic or beginning principles of a subject.

• Rudiments

• Enumerate

• Repine

• Desponding

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Money or food given to poor people; charity.

• Dear

• Censure

• Alms

• Brevity

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4