Night: Chapters 6-9 Vocabulary

Moving mechanical devices that imitate human beings

• bureaucrats

• provisions

• dregs

• automatons

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Overcome with grief, she gave a ____ eulogy at the funeral.

• prostrate

• plaintive

• prevailing

Answer explanation

Plaintive means "sounding sad and mournful."

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Gone beyond the range or limits of something abstract

• unprecedented

• emaciated

• billeted

• transcended

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern

• sympathy

• empathy

• apathy

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

After finishing the marathon, the runner collapsed, ____ with exhaustion.

• untenable

• inert

• surreptitiously

• convalescent

Answer explanation

Inert means "lacking the ability or strength to move."

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The most worthless parts of something

• dregs

• idleness

• dysentery

• barracks

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

During WWII, civilians received a ____ of food to ensure that soldiers oversees would have enough to eat.

• feeble

• din

• ration

• apathy

Answer explanation

Ration means "a fixed amount of a commodity."

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

He felt ____ after the intense workout.

• feeble

• unprecedented

• novel

• plaintive

Answer explanation

Feeble means "lacking physical strength."

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Laziness or a state of inaction 

• novel

• ration

• provisions

• idleness

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Never done or known before

• untenable

• unprecedented

• billeted

• altruistic

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4