10th SG Quizizz

(La Rinconada) What is the meaning of the adjective "despoiled?"

• decreasing at a fast rate

• corrupted by greed and ambition

• decayed and no longer able to be eaten

• damaged badly and stripped of value

(La Rinconada) The word distemper contains one of the meanings of the Latin root -temp- plus the prefix dis-, which means "apart from, away, or against something." What is the most likely meaning of the word distemper?

• a state of not being calm

• a state of not knowing

• a state of being calm

• a state of not being on time

(La Rinconada) “It is a wilderness ice, rock, and gold…” To which sense do these details appeal?

• sound

• balance

• sight

• taste

(Poetry Collection) What is a word's connotation?

• the dictionary definition

• everything that is wrong with it

• the feeling of a word that makes it different than its synonyms

• a type of journalism such as the one provided by "In La Rinconada"

(The Golden Touch) Identify the noun clause in this sentence: "But now, if he looked at them at all, it was only to calculate how much would the garden be worth."

• but now

• if he looked at them all

• it was only to calculate

• how much would the garden be worth

(The Golden Touch) The suffix -ous means "full of." Using this information and your knowledge of the Latin root -lus-, choose the word that has the same meaning as lustrous.

• full of anger

• full of shining light

• coming at the end of a list

• being against the sun

(The Golden Touch) What is the meaning of the adjective "gilded?"

• covered with gold leaf or gold paint

• to soar over something smoothly

• an item held by a leader

• set on fire

(Poetry Collection) Which of the following is the strongest example of consonance?

• From her sister's christening gown

• When some people talk about money

• Came back, and it makes me nostalgic

• Who was that, Mama? they say

(Poetry Collection) In which of these lines is the third-person point of view most clear?

• She'd weigh a peach in her hands.

• In the spidery crawlspace.

• At least twenty times a day.

• Junebugs pinned to a sheet of cork.