
Vocabulary List #3 (12A)
Authored by Kathryn Spicer
English
12th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"He was a tiny creature, smaller than Winston, with dark hair and large, protuberant eyes, at once mournful and __________, which seemed to search your face closely while he was speaking to you."
derisive
inscrutable
urbane
pugnacious
Tags
CCSS.L.1.6
CCSS.L.3.6
CCSS.L.4.6
CCSS.RL.1.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"And the Ministry had not only to supply the __________ needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat."
derisive
inscrutable
multifarious
pugnacious
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a __________ absurdity."
multifarious
pedantic
lassitude
palpable
Tags
CCSS.L.3.2F
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made __________ confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed, were special show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a couple of years."
annihilation
abject
inscrutable
urbane
Tags
CCSS.L.3.2F
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"A deadly __________ had taken hold of him. All he wanted was to get home quickly and then sit down and be quiet."
lassitude
annihilation
imbecility
zeal
Tags
CCSS.L.1.6
CCSS.L.3.6
CCSS.L.4.6
CCSS.RL.1.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"He believed in the principles of Ingsoc, he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless __________, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.
lassitude
annihilation
zeal
imbecility
Tags
CCSS.L.3.2F
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
"Winston thought for a moment, then pulled the speak-write towards him and began dictating in Big Brother's familiar style: a style at once military and __________, and, because of a trick of asking questions and then promptly answering them...easy to imitate.
inscrutable
multifarious
pugnacious
pedantic
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.6
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