Unit 1 Vocabulary Quiz

Another word for ________ is glowing.

• immense

• morpheme

• literal

• luminous

To look steadily at something

• gazing

• concrete

• luminous

• nonliteral

The ordinary, exact meaning of a word

• morpheme

• literal

• rage

• concrete

What does the word immense mean in the sentence below?

An immense wave pulled the boat under the water.

• very big

• glowing

• looking steadily

• with a sense of great need

Using a meaning other than the ordinary, exact meaning of a word

• vast

• fable

• nonliteral

• rage

What does the word loomed mean in the sentence below?

Dark storm clouds loomed on the horizon

• With a sense of extreme need

• Not able to experience by the senses

• Able to be touched or experienced by your senses (touch, smell, hear, see, taste)

• Came into view as a large shape

A short story that teaches a lesson or moral, usually with talking animals

• literal

• gazing

• fable

• abstract

Basic part of a word, with no suffixes or prefixes

• nonliteral

• literal

• fable

• root word

What does the word desperately mean in the sentence below?

He was so thirsty, he desperately needed a drink

• Great anger

• With a sense of extreme need

• Glowing

• Looking steadily

A guess or conclusion based on facts and observations

• abstract

• concrete

• immense

• inference