9th Grade Vocabulary

We were already struggling to keep students' attention in the classroom when the clown (a)   our problem by walking funny through the hall, so everybody would see him.

The people were calm just before the news of the market crash came in, and a (a)   formed in the lounge.

  I was dumbfounded because my question (a)   no response or interest from the audience.  (verb in past tense).

I chose to work with the new method because the one in the books was already (a)   , in other words, it was not in use anymore.

Setting the fair on the western grounds was an (a)   decision, without any good reason.  

The police required (a)   evidence rather than just hearsay and other unsustainable clues.

The prodigal son (a)   all the inheritance that his father has bestowed on him while pursuing his own pleasures (past tense verb).

Trading with cryptocurrency can be a (a)   business at times, but at others, it could sink all your investments.

People in social welfare are often considered (a)   because they hold no jobs, but that is an unfair label since permanent and good-paying jobs are hard to come by these days (adjective).

The Greene–Jones War was a Appalachian Mountain clan feud in the United States that fed a longstanding (a)   between these two families.