Critical Vocabulary #3

What does it mean to have strong emotions about something?

• to feel angry

• to feel passionate

• to feel hungry

• to feel eccentric

An ​ (a)   is the desire to do something.

• impulse
• passionate
• distinguished
• eccentric

A ​ (a)   group is known and respected for its excellence.

• distinguished
• eccentric
• impulse
• popular

A person who helps to make something has made a ​ (a)   to that work.

• contribution
• circumstance
• passionate
• surprise

The cause of an event or the way it happened is called a _____.

• contribution

• passionate

• circumstance

• evidently

An ​ (a)   person is odd.

• eccentric
• old
• impulsive
• distinguished

If something happens for an obvious reason, it happens _____.

• for a reason

• impulsive

• eccentrically

• evidently

​ (a)   is the act of moving faster.

• Acceleration
• Walking
• Impulsive
• Eccentric

If you thought of the idea to create something, you ______ it.

• conceived

• damaged

• distinguished

• circumstance

What does the Greek root bio mean?

• science

• earth

• life

• water