Quizziz #10

_____ comes from the Latin vorāre, "to devour." The word is usually associated with swallowing or devouring food in a ravenous manner, but it can be used of someone intensely involved in any activity.

Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is good, to the _____ of faith: that it may administer grace to the hearers.

• edification

• voracious

• officious

• spurious

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When a company wants to reduce its payroll without firing anyone, it will sometimes do so through _____; that is, by waiting for people to retire or quit without hiring anyone new to replace them. In a more general sense, the word means break down, wear out, or reduce in numbers.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The solidest rocks are day by day disintegrated slowly, but none the less surely, by wind and rain and frost, by mechanical _____ and chemical decomposition, to form the pulverized earth and clay.

• pious

• gregarious

• onerous

• attrition

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A _____ person is full of scruples, which are concerns about doing things that are morally right. Such a person is hesitant or doubtful, and might have trouble deciding what is morally right or wrong. The adjective _____ is from Latin scrūpulōsus, from scrūpulus, "scruple."

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Scrupulous has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• tactful

• baleful

• careful

• helpful

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Enhanced by _____ attention to details of color, light and shadow, “Last Supper” radiates its new life without losing the artist's original vision.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

If someone is deeply religious and visibly follows all the moral and ethical codes of his religion, he is _____. Don't become a priest if you're not prepared to live a _____ life.

If someone believes deeply in something, and lets everyone see it through their behavior, then they are _____, whether they're _____Christians or _____ environmentalists. It differs from its synonym devout, which implies deep religious sentiment, whereas _____ emphasizes the public display of feeling.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

They have to adapt to a life of pretending to be _____, she explains, and of following the rules of a religion they don't believe in.

• pious

• edification

• attrition

• gregarious

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4