Vocabulary Assessment 1: Wit and Wisdom 6th grade

I was ___ by the lights of the city at night.

• bright

• dazzled

• illuminated

• loved

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The children saw the bus driver ___ at them for screaming on the bus.

• smiling

• laughing

• glowering

• crying

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

The grapes ___ on the vine.

• devoured

• resilient

• abandoned

• withered

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

After hearing both sides of their arguments, he proposed a ___.

• compromise

• marriage

• break

• conservation

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

___ is a common quality of successful people.

• smothering

• parched

• companion

• resilience

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

I look forward to ___ my next big adventure!

• commencing

• rehabilitate

• impressing

• ending

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Maya had to ___a number of hardships in her young life.

• initial

• ultimate

• human condition

• endure

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Fred ___ each book of the series as it came out.

• deferred

• devoured

• essence

• smothered

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I sensed he was ___ something, but I did not know what it could be.

• glowering

• primed

• parching

• insinuating

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

"Why are you so ___?" the grandfather asked the sad boy.

• glum

• court

• sparse

• hospitality

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4