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Which connotation is MORE positive?
Some of the monkeys made ______ faces.

• amusing
• hilarious

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"Kino watched as two roosters bowed and feinted at each other with squared wings and neck feathers ruffed out. It would be a clumsy fight. They were not game chickens" (4).

What does feinted mean?

• pecked at one another

• fell down unconscious

• appeared to box one another

• started to dance

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What is the meaning of denotation?

• It represents something else (emble, token, etc.)

• The emotion of a word

• The art of lasagna baking

• The official meaning of a word

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I drank an entire glass of water because I was so parched.

• thirsty

• full

• hungry

• happy

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What is the past participle of "write"?

• written

• wrote

• writes

• writing

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a person having a great capacity for thought

• aeronautics

• supremacy

• aerodynamics

• intellectual

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The meaning of the phrase ‘fits and starts’ means __________.

• Rarely

• Occasionally

• Regularly

• Hardly

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"Dipak is such an obstinate boy!" his mother exclaimed in dismay. Obstinate means:

• Obedient

• Lazy

• Quick to become angry

• Stubborn

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Apples and oranges are ____ the same box.

• in

• at

• of

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According to the author, the people of Salem had two motivations for working hard all the time. One was their creed. What is a creed?

• belief system

• survival instinct

• business system

• a system of government

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