May 2024 Academic Vocab Practice

Solution means:

• a return to a prior condition or state

• a failure to act with reasonable caution or care

• a situation being solved or fixed

• a central area within some larger region

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Support means:

• an extreme attainment

• the act of working out the form of something

• aiding the cause or interests of

• the act of drawing spatially closer to something

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CCSS.L.5.5C

"The fact is all the more remarkable when we compare his writing on Shakespeare with Swinburne's book published during the same year."

In this sentence, compare means to:

• accept to be what is claimed

• get despite difficulties or obstacles

• examine and note the similarities or differences of

• express approval of

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CCSS.L.5.5C

"She could also predict the future and recognize people's intentions, abilities that she maintained throughout her life and that increased with time."

In this sentence, predict means to:

• tell in advance

• ignore or avoid

• admit to a wrongdoing

• deny the possibility of

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CCSS.L.5.5C

"His mother described her son as such a loner that he would not even attend his sister's birthday parties."

In the sentences above, described has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• accomplished

• reported

• selected

• attracted

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CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

"Add enough sea salt to the water to approximate the salinity of the ocean."

In the sentence above, approximate has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• flow from

• wash out

• soak up

• come close

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CCSS.L.5.5C

"He was home again where his problem now was haste, passing time, the need to hurry."

In the sentence above, problem has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• crime

• fortune

• message

• trouble

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Additional means:

• not keenly felt

• having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status

• pertaining to or characteristic of drama

• further or added

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

"Rather, the 90-page opinion underscores some of the conflicting evidence in the case."

In this sentence, evidence means:

• means by which an alleged matter is established or disproved

• the state of being emotionally worked up

• disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably

• an abusive attack on a person's character or good name

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CCSS.L.5.5C

"Aides to President Obama, by contrast, have charted a more nuanced course, alternately embracing and dismissing the polls."

In this sentence, contrast means:

• systematic investigation to establish facts

• the act of distinguishing by comparing differences

• the act of forming or establishing something

• disclosure of something secret or concealed

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C