AV - Unit 3 Vocabulary Exam

Working-class housing in nineteenth-century England was ___ by today's standards: crowded, dark, badly ventilated, and unsanitary.

• meticulous

• distraught

• sordid

• innocuous

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Even when textbooks are ___ throughout a school system, methods of teaching may vary greatly.

• standardized
• mesmerized

• contrite

• symmetrical

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The existence of nuclear weapons puts everyone in a(n) ___ situation.

• austere

• precarious

• magnanimous

• flamboyant

As long as the thief was in Europe, American courts had no ___ over him.

• metamorphosis

• connoisseur

• jurisdiction

• travesty

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Having lived in Italy and studied cooking there, the newspaper's food critic is a ___ of Italian cuisine.

• masochist

• rancor

• plight

• connoisseur

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

March is ___ for its extreme weather, which can include blizzards, flooding rains, tornadoes, and calm spring days.

• stringent

• symmetrical

• notorious

• magnanimous

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Some people feel that a circus act in which costumed elephants dance or stand on their heads is a ___ of these intelligent animals' true nature.

• foible

• recrimination

• conspiracy

• travesty

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

My ___ as a worker in the hotel laundry lasted only a day. It turned out that I was allergic to the soap.

• facsimile

• idiosyncrasy

• foible

• stint

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The Englishman John Merrick had an illness that gave him a(n) ___ appearance, which is why he was called "The Elephant Man." Despite people's reactions to his misshapen head and body, Merrick remained affectionate and gentle.

• germane

• imminent

• contrite

• grotesque

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

A founder of the U.S. Steel Company was wealthy enough to have an expensive ___ . It was his habit to bet a thousand dollars on which of two raindrops falling down a windowpane would reach the bottom first.

• masochist

• recrimination

• facsimile

• idiosyncrasy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C