1st Game Gatsby Vocabulary Questions

Which word best fits the sentence?

Frequently I have ____ sleep, preoccupation, for a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon.

• conferred

• feigned

• desolate

• bantered

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

Which word would you use to fill in the blank?

Frequently I have pretended to sleep, but then I would laugh at the ____ of the situation since everyone knew I was awake.

• fractiousness

• levity

• intricate

• wistfully

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

Which word would you fill in the blank with?

She nodded at me almost _______, then quickly tipped her head back again.

• bantering

• ecstatically

• accentuated

• imperceptibly

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

Which word fills in the blank the best?

He was related to one of those _____ machines that register earthquakes 10,000 miles away.

• fractiousness

• supercilious

• intricate

• pungent

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

What word best fits the blank?

Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a ______ manner as he always looked angry.

• wistfully

• conferred

• supercilious

• deft

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

Which word best fits into the sentence?

His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of ______ he conveyed.

• levity

• fractiousness

• bantering

• pungent

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

Which word best fits into the sentence?

She yawned and with a serious of rapid, ____ movements stood up into the room.

• ecstatically

• desolate

• accentuated

• deft

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

Which word best fits into the sentence?

He had causally _____ on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

• desolate

• conferred

• wistfully

• feigned

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

Which word best fits into the sentence?

It was _____ since the mark could barely be seen.

• pungent

• accentuated

• infinitesimal

• intricate

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

Which word best fits the sentence?

The face of Lizzie Borden was ____ of all emotions.

• obscure

• devoid

• contiguous

• proprietor

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