Vocabulary Unit 7 Fill in the Blanks

1. The top of Mount Everest is called the _______.

• apex
• adieu
• advent
• metropolis
• vagrant

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

2. Some people live in a small town or hamlet; other people live in a crowded ________.

• metropolis
• adieu
• advent
• vagrant
• apex

Tags

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

3. People from Hawaii say, "aloha" which means both "hello," and also ______.

• adieu
• advent
• metropolis
• vagrant
• apex

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

4. The invention of the printing press led to the __________ of mass-produced books and newspapers.

• advent
• adieu
• metropolis
• vagrant
• apex

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

5. Using no capital letters, please write in the word that means "wanderer" or "homeless traveler."

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

6. Using no capital letters, please write in the word that means "an in-between time" or the "meanwhile."

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

7. If someone important in your life directed one of these at you, you might cry.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

8. The tough thing about listening one of Ted's stories is that he never gets to the point; he just sort of ___________ through a bunch of unrelated details.

• inundates

• maligns

• assimilates

• meanders

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

9. Over the weekend, teacher only gave one assignment because she didn't want to ______________ her students with too much homework.

• inundate
• malign
• assimilate
• meander

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

10. In the early 1900s, the immigrants who arrived in the United States lived mostly in their own ethnic communites, but gradually, these immigrants took on American habits and beliefs and began to ___________ to their new country.

• inundate
• malign
• assimilate
• meander

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E