Vocabulary #14 Quiz

Some people can be so very ___________ that it is hard to be around them--whining, complaining, moaning, groaning about everything. They are not pleasant people, and they try to bring everyone around them down. I don't have time to complain because I'm too busy winning at life.

• querulous

• tentative

• scrutinize

• recount

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Darth Malgus replied, "I shall ________ to you a story from the time of the beginning, so very long ago that only shadowy vestiges of events remain to be told. From the time of the first Sith, who tapped the power of the Dark Side."

• recount

• scrutinize

• vilify

• whimsical

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Legal documents often contain so many details and opportunities for loopholes that one must __________ them carefully before putting one's signature to anything.

• scrutinize

• recount

• vilify

• tentative

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Our __________ plans for the first two weeks of June are to visit Maine, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The first two days will be getting there. We'll stay in Augusta, Maine for a day or two, and then we'll take the ferry over to Monhegan Island for the day. We'll drive up to Moncton and see the sites. But Prince Edward Island contains so many sites of interest that we'll be there at least a week.

• tentative

• vilified

• scrutinized

• recounted

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

The innocent man was thoroughly _________ by everyone in the semi-reliable rumor mill of the small town, all those who mistakenly thought that he had committed several crimes, including but not limited to the theft of $500,000 from the bank. It was later revealed in a complete investigation that his secretary had stolen the money, not him.

• vilified

• scrutinized

• whimsical

• recounted

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Josie Mae's story was chockfull of fantastical and _________ assertions that no one found even a tiny shred of what she said believable. It was so very shocking to Johan, the exchange student from Bloemfontein, that he couldn't even compose himself enough to put his thoughts into English. He was muttering, "Jy praat nie die waarheid nie." I knew what he was saying, but luckily Josie Mae didn't. If she did, she's so crazy she'd probably have jumped on him.

• whimsical

• aviary

• eclectic

• debunked

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

In an _________ maneuver, Johnny took a chance and passed the lead car high. Passing on the high side at East Alabama is a gamble at best. It looked like he was hanging the right rear off the top of the track. But the car stuck, and as he went into turn three, he had taken the lead with two laps to go.

• audacious

• aviary

• debunked

• eclectic

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

They built an ________ in Jurassic Park to keep the pterosaurs from flying away. It was a large, dome-shaped structure that enabled visitors to see the flying dinosaurs.

• aviary

• eclectic

• replete

• respite

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

It is rather easy to _________ the more outlandish and improbable conspiracy theories, but some do seem so plausible that one wants to believe them at face value. The lizard people would have you believe their nefarious agenda without question, but some of us see through it.

• debunk

• spurious

• inception

• misanthrope

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

If you have two witnesses whom you suspect are lying, question them separately in order to uncover __________ in their testimonies. That is what the Romulan commander did to Kirk and Spock.

• discrepancies

• aviaries

• inceptions

• misanthropes

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4