10/23 Vocab Quiz: EAP and Creepypasta Vocab

"Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!"

What does quaff mean?

• to eat with one's hands

• to get relief from suffering

• to drink something heartily

• to get violently angry

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Gaunt" means (a)   or desolate in appearance. "Pallid" means ​ (b)   .

• grim
• pale
• quaff
• foresight
• foreboding
• intense

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

This word means severe or intense; shrewd.

• acute

• foresight

• ominous

• dreary

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Match the following

• grim or desolate in appearance

• ominous

• threatening

• foresight

• to cover or wrap completely

• gaunt

• the ability to predict the future

• enveloped

• lifeless, depressing

• dreary

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

A terrible sense of gloom __________ my body as I walked down the dark, lonely road.

• gaunt

• acute

• pallid

• enveloped

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The raven was an (a)   creature that appeared in the Narrator's chamber and never left.

• ominous
• pallid
• nepenthe
• metaphor
• foresight

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

If the raven was described as gaunt, that means that it looked:

• grim, thin, or haggard-looking

• beautiful and radiant

• delicious and tantalizing

• well-fed, active, and healthy.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

The Raven poem famously begins with: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

The word dreary means

• chilly and terrifying

• muddy and slimy

• moist, dirty and musty

• dull, bleak and depressing

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

When you can predict what will happen or be needed in the future:

• magnitude

• foresight

• acute

• ominous

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Bats have remarkable hearing abilities.

They can detect the low frequencies of a beetle walking through dry leaves. Their sense of hearing is very...

• ominous

• dreary

• acute

• enveloped

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F