Gatsby Ch. 7-9 Vocabulary Quiz

Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary term:

The _______ of her speech was nearly perfect, everyone cheered when she finished!

• garrulous

• forlorn

• elocution

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Gatsby stood _____ outside Daisy's house desperately waiting for a sign she would come to him.

• abandoned

• forlorned

• indiscernible

• portentous

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Match the following vocabulary word to the synonym:

• fail

• lapse

• talkative

• laden

• unnoticeable

• indiscernible

• heavy

• garrulous

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The ____ black clouds indicated that a storm was coming.

• portentous

• superfluous

• vicarious

• evil

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Use the correct vocabulary word in a sentence from Gatsby. (Fill in the Blank)

• surmise

• "Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the ____ of the elevated railway."

• tumult

• "That request seemed to ____when I wrote it.

• tentative

• "As though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake _________ of their emotions."

• superfluous

• "From the moment I telephoned News Express in New York I was bound up with them, and every _____ about him, and every practical question on their behalf."

• vicariously

• "I made a ____plan to meet Gatsby for coffee on Friday, though it never happened."

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5