To Kill a Mockingbird Vocabulary Quiz Final

If you _____ an unpleasant feeling, you make it go away.______ ing your hunger by eating a bag of marshmallows may cause you other unpleasant feelings.

• assuage

• imprudent

• apprehensive

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Although the sign at the back of the shop in the old town square said _______, most people called the man behind the counter by his modern title, "pharmacist," instead.

• foray

• stricture

• apothecary

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Someone who is__________ is reserved, not loud and talkative. The word itself refers to the trait of reticence, of seeming aloof and uncommunicative. A _________ person might be snobby, naturally quiet, or just shy.

• Taciturn

• chattlel

• Unsullied

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

To be ______ means lacking self-restraint when it would be wise to have it, like that time you started dancing on the table during a math test. Remember that? That was unwise.

• stricture

• Imprudent

• mortification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

________ means completely full, especially with living things. If your grandmother's apartment is _______ing with cats, she sure has a lot of them.

• teem

• wallow

• erratic

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A _____________ is a preference for or bias toward something. If you have a_____________ for wool clothing, you should take up knitting.

• imprudent

• predilection

• foray

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Something that's ___________ is clouded or hazy. When you walk through the woods on a foggy morning, the trees may all have a mysterious, ___________ look to them.

• Nebulous

• Foray

• Apprehensive

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The noun _____________ comes in handy in negotiations — between countries, political parties, or even parents and their kids. Want a raise in your allowance? You may have to agree to do more chores as a _________before your parents will agree.

• Concession

• Foray

• Truant

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

If you're _____________, you're anxious or fearful. If you live near a busy intersection with no stop signs, you might be a bit _________ about crossing the street.

• Apprehensive

• Mortified

• Contentious

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

To _____________ is to involve. A job at a movie theater might ___________ sweeping popcorn off the floor, probably because watching a movie _______ eating popcorn in the dark.

• Amiable

• Entail

• Erratic

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4