Read the sentence: My cat would paw at the door and make a whining noise. What word means almost the same thing as "whining"?

• scratching

• crying

• rubbing

• purring

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.5C

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

Read this paragraph: In the past, pandas would just wander the mountains in search of other kinds of bamboo. Today there's a short supply of food because roads, farms, and cities isolate forests. The pandas can't get to a new forest because their homes are surrounded by human activities. Which word is a synonym for isolate?

• remove

• separate

• contain

• destroy

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.5C

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

Which words mean the same thing?

• big, clever

• creeping, close

• wonderful, marvelous

• suddenly, remembered

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.5C

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

Read this sentence: "But even though he had to work hard with his hands, he would not give up and stop using his mind." Which sentence uses the word hard in the same way it is used in the sentence above?

• The ball bounced backed immediately when it hit the hard wall.

• My sister studied hard to earn a good grade on the test.

• He thought the new textbook was hard to understand.

• I gave the man a hard look because I was curious.

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Read this sentence: "He figured out a way to improve his farm tools." Which word is an antonym for improve?

• worsen

• invent

• show

• waste

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CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.5C

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

"You need to drink milk once a week to help your bones grow stronger." Which word is a matching homophone to a word in the sentence?

• strong

• weak

• brow

• milk

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CCSS.L.4.1G

CCSS.L.K.4A

Read this sentence: "The woman enjoyed the rest of the day with her prized dumpling." The author used the word prized to show that the dumpling was very...

• clever

• naughty

• special

• tasty

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CCSS.L.3.2F

Choose the two words that are homophones.

• hot, cold

• match, match

• unhappy, happy

• sea, see

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CCSS.L.4.1G

CCSS.L.K.4A

Choose the two words that are homographs.

• male, mail

• sun, son

• joyful, excited

• bear, bear

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Write a homophone for any of these words: eye, flower, knight, buy, break, four

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CCSS.L.4.1G

CCSS.L.K.4A