M&M Vocab: Usage

Indicate whether the underlined word is used correctly or incorrectly in the sentence.

We did not let opposing team’s sagacious remarks about our team’s lack of talent bother us—instead, we focused and cleaned the floor with them, winning 50-1.

• correct

• incorrect

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A college application essay that instructs you to describe your future plans and goals in 200 words requires profuse writing.

• correct

• incorrect

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

Selfishness and lack compassion are pestilences on our society that have no easy solution.

• correct

• incorrect

Since I went to the grocery store a week before Thanksgiving, I’m well-provisioned for the holiday (while some of my acquaintances are panicking over the lack of potatoes and Turkeys available in the stores now).

• correct

• incorrect

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CCSS.L.8.5A

Amy is a pretty girl, but her constant angry scowl gives her a generally ugly countenance.

• correct

• incorrect

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CCSS.L.3.2F

After Henry VIII separated England from the Catholic church, he ordered the dissolution of the monasteries and took their wealth for the British Crown.

• correct

• incorrect

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CCSS.RI.11-12.1

Imogen keeps her Christmas decorations simple, preferring lurid strands of greenery to flashy razzle-dazzle decor.

• correct

• incorrect

Even though my old Christmas tree is a little sad and dilapidated from years of use, I still use it year after year because of all the fond memories attached to it.

• correct

• incorrect

Our beautiful oceans, though at first glance seeming to be teeming with vitality, are in great danger and will surely die without immediate action, to the detriment of the whole planet.

• correct

• incorrect

Make sure your sentiences have no major structure or punctuation errors, so they can be easily read and understood.

• correct

• incorrect