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What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

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Something that is immense is

• cloudy
• correct
• fluffy
• huge

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In late 2006, apiarists in the U.S. began reporting that their honey bees were dying. Some of these beekeepers lost 90 percent of their hives. What is the best definition of apiarists?

• hives
• problems
• honeybees
• beekeepers

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When the teacher spoke the directions verbatim, she also had the exact same thing written on the worksheet she gave to each student.

• word for word
• in secret
• different
• loudly

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The planning board refused to allow the construction of a factory in close _____________ to our school building.

• proximity

• ample

• apparition

• jurisdiction

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A word that imitates the sound it represents.

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• pun

• alliteration

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Refer to the dictionary entry in the photo: Which sentence correctly uses the first definition of obstruct?

• The terrorists' plan was obstructed by the witness's report.

• The snowbanks completely obstructed the roads in and out of our neighborhood.

• We expected an ocean view, but our view of the beach was obstructed by the construction crane.

• An emergency meeting of the basketball team obstructed our ability to get practice over with early.

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Malcolm X spoke out for African Americans' __________ during the Civil Rights era.

• Optimism

• Confidence

• Apathy

• Frustration

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What is an idea or feeling that a word puts off or suggests.

• denotation

• connotation

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Typewriters became obsolete with the development of personal computers. What does the word obsolete mean?

• popular

• out-dated

• careful

• round

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