TEKS.ELA.9-12.II.B

If you look over _________, you might find the wallet that you lost. 

• their 
• they're
• there
• puppies 

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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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TEKS.ELA.6.2A

What is another name for "soothsayer?"

• villager
• fortune teller
• business owner
• storyteller

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This hotel is big, but Grand Hotel is __________ and the airport hotel is the biggest.

• biger.
• more big.
• most big.
• bigger.

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What's an antonym for augmenting?

• Decreasing

• Raising

• Measuring

• Exaggerating

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How would allusion be defined?

• a reference to a famous person, place, or event

• words that involve one of the five senses

• two lines working as a unit

• a form or wordplay with similar sounding sounds

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This is ___________- you ordered the pizza. I ordered the spaghetti

• theirs

• mine

• yours

• his

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Rather than be involved in clandestine meetings, they did everything quite openly.

What is the meaning of clandestine?

• loud

• secret

• sloppy

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Diction is the literary term that means

• The connections we have with words

• An author's choice of words

• The definition of words

• The common way of speaking with friends

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It took no time for Paula to get _____ her disappointment.

• up
• over
• with

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