Vocabulary Quiz 17 English II

How would you describe something furtive?

• Secret, stealthy

• friendly

• deceptive

• hardworking

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What does decorous mean?

• Proper, in good taste

• praise, applaud

• defiant

• false

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What is a hiatus?

• A gap, opening, or break

• an injury

• blooming

• hatred, ill will

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

How would you describe something specious?

• Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious

• beautiful

• specific

• hateful

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What does acclaim mean?

• Praise, applause

• Counterargument

• hatred

• to rise above

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What does it mean to surmount something?

• To overcome, rise above it

• go under it

• to praise, applaud

• to push through

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is pandemonium?

• A wild uproar, commotion

• widespread disease

• a meeting place

• applause, praise

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What does efflorescence refer to?

• Blooming of flowers

• glowing light

• a gap, opening, break

• hatred, ill will

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What does it mean for something to be embossed?

• Embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure

• to be carved

• dipped in gold or silver

• ruined

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What does enmity mean?

• hatred, ill will

• friendship

• admiration

• jealousy

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4