Vocabulary and Comprehension Quiz

His _______ interest in the state of my finances strengthened my suspicions that he was about to ask for a loan.

Because the playwright had hurried through her first draft, she had to make _____________________ changes as she revised the dialogue.

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.2.4C

Trying to read your _____________ prose is like trying to swim upstream through custard.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Unfortunately, the _______________ hopes and aspirations of my youth have been somewhat blighted by the icy blasts of reality.

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CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

When life was easy, he was all dash and confidence, but in times of trouble his essentially ______ character came to the fore.

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CCSS.L.3.2F

Every Memorial Day, the mayor delivers a ____________ extolling the selfless devotion of those who have died in defense of this country.

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.L.4.6

The new mayor is a curious mixture of the hardheaded pragmatist and the ___________ reformer.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Such spices as red pepper make many of the sauces used in Cajun cooking delightfully _________.

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

From the deck of our luxury liner, we occasionally caught sight of schools of porpoises __________ playfully in the waves.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.L.4.6

The extraordinary musical talents of Mozart __________ themselves at an amazingly early age.

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E