Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Rather than be involved in clandestine meetings, they did everything quite openly.

What is the meaning of clandestine?

• loud

• secret

• sloppy

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

When Meagan was the interim president of the garden club, she handled all the club business for the five months before a new president was elected.

What is the meaning of interim?

• temporary

• permanent

• unprofessional

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The fifty pound pumpkin was gargantuan in size.

What does gargantuan mean?

• Small

• Large

• Average

• Colorful

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

The conspicuous man wore a purple wig and large sunglasses.

• easily noticed
• beautiful
• sleeping

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

The speech in a story is called dialogue.  What does the root "log" mean?

• dance
• word or study
• sleep or rest
• travel or go

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

If you have a portable computer, you can take it with you.  What does the root "port" mean?

• to see
• to sleep
• to carry
• to throw

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

In extreme sports, players have to mend their dislocated bones often.
What has happened to their bones?

• They are broken again.
• They are not in place.
• They are beyond repair.
• They are made smaller.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The prefix "in" means "not."

What does innumerable mean?

• cannot be counted (because it's too much)

• without strength

• without numbers

• lacking ability

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

What does the quote below mean?
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."

• It's a helpful experience to have a hard teacher.
• Experienced teachers give the lesson first and then the test.
• Everyone has the experience of making mistakes both in school and in life.
• Experience can be a difficult way to learn because you learn from making mistakes.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Marcia is a novice soccer player. It is her first day of practice.

• skilled
• beginner
• professional

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.4.6