Grade 9 Vocabulary Assignment

What does the word 'symbolic' mean?

• Serving as a symbol

• Easily broken or destroyed

• Sleep-inducing

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

What is the meaning of the word 'merely'?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• Easily broken or destroyed

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

What is the meaning of the word 'impersonal'?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• Not engaging the human personality or emotions

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

How would you define the word 'fragile'?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• Easily broken or destroyed

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

What is a marionette?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• A small-scale usually wooden figure with jointed limbs that is moved from above by manipulation of the attached strings or wires

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

What is a subconscious?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• A small-scale usually wooden figure with jointed limbs that is moved from above by manipulation of the attached strings or wires

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

What is "accumulate"?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• to gather or pile up especially little by little

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

What does it mean to 'pulverize' something?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• Easily broken or destroyed

• To reduce to very small particles

What does hypnotic mean?

• Sleep-inducing/one that can be hypnotized

• Nothing more

• Easily broken or destroyed

• To reduce to very small particles

What is the best word to complete the following sentence: "The mower ________ grass clippings."

• hypnotic

• merely

• fragile

• pulverizes