Dystopian Vocabulary - English 10

Where is a person most likely to experience lamentations?

• Packer game

• Parent teacher conference

• funeral

• dinner party

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Contemplation means

• to have deep, reflective thought

• to understand or realize

• to act with resistance or disobey

• to work tirelessly with no breaks

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of these would most likely be a boisterous situation?

• A music concert at Summerfest

• A library study session

• Apple picking in the fall

• An MHS Choir concert

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

All of these mean disagreeing or acting disobediently EXCEPT:

• Defiantly

• Petulantly

• Emanations

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When someone can't look away from their phone, they are _____ in what they are watching.

• receding

• engrossed

• emerging

• ceasing

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When a movie ends, the entertainment has ____.

• emerged

• receded

• apprehended

• ceased

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The parents' efforts in "The Veldt" to make emotional connections with their children were _____.

• interminable

• perfunctory

• boisterous

• exquisite

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The mood at the end of "Time Capsule Found on a Dead Planet" is one of

• despair

• industrious

• contemplation

• defiance

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of these is the best example of something exquisite?

• the pouring of cement in a driveway

• the many trees in a forest

• the pattern on the wings of a butterfly

• the words in a research paper

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

At the very beginning of "The Lottery," Mrs. Hutchins is ____ that she will be attacked at the end of the story.

• despairing

• contemplating

• petulant

• oblivious

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4