Vocabulary Unit 8 Quiz

Plot means:

• a question raised for consideration or solution

• disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings

• the story that is told as in a novel or play or movie

• an essay, especially one written as an assignment

Passage means:

• an international agreement

• a section of text

• an extended fictional work in prose

• any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

Previous means:

• of the immediate past

• of a scale or mode

• concise and succinct

• characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination

Oppose means to:

• cause to move faster

• praise vociferously

• devote (oneself) fully to

• be against

Preview means:

• a screening for an audience in advance of public release

• a published report issued by a government agency

• an example that helps to solve a problem

• a reminder for some action or speech

But his remarks drew a sharp response from an opposite ________.

• mansion

• glimmer

• perspective

• bait

Procedure means:

• confused movement

• a minor match preceding the main event

• a leisurely walk

• a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

Plan means to:

• prepare

• plunder

• pledge

• postpone

Organize means to:

• show devotion to, as a deity

• plan and direct, as a complex undertaking

• operate an airplane

• change the inherent purpose or function of something

Prefix means to:

• hold back to a later time

• submerge in a liquid

• attach an element to the beginning of a word

• move or force, as in an effort to get something open