Unit 3 Vocabulary Review-8th Grade

Troy’s score on the ______ test section was higher than that on the mathematics section.

• verbal

• intramural

• autonomous

• apathetic

The veterinarian gave the lamb an ______ injection of vitamins.

• intervention

• intermediate

• intravenous

• intramural

The advertisement was addressed to “______,” so I just tossed it in the wastebasket

• Adherent

• Abundant

• Humanoid

• Occupant

Mozart’s opera ______ from the Seraglio is about an attempted kidnapping that takes place in a Turkish sultan’s palace.

• Abduction

• Intervention

• Transmission

• Plight

Greg lost the chess game because he had a short ______ of concentration and made a single bad move

• plight

• lapse

• mandate

• certitude

The mountain sunset was so beautiful that it had the power to ______ everyone in our hiking group.

• transfix

• enclose

• perforate

• abdicate

A knowledge of ______ can be a great help when you try to learn a foreign language.

• hydrophobia

• transmission

• certitude

• phonetics

I wish people wouldn’t ______ on the corner of our block.

• abdicate

• loiter

• summon

• enclose

The ______ of the trapped miners captured the sympathy of the entire country.

• mandate

• phobia

• lapse

• plight

Terence’s sprained ankle was so severe that the quick ______ of a doctor was required.

• transmission

• pathos

• intervention

• gratitude