Vocabulary Ch 9

Which definition matches the word apprehensive?

• a mistaken idea, an error in thinking
• someone who expects a good outcome
• frightened, uneasy, anxious
• filled with self-importance, overly proud and vain
• lacking worldly experience, unsuspecting, unsophisticated

Which definition matches the word arrogant?

• a mistaken idea, an error in thinking
• someone who expects a good outcome
• frightened, uneasy, anxious
• filled with self-importance, overly proud and vain
• lacking worldly experience, unsuspecting, unsophisticated

Which definition matches the word fallacy?

• a mistaken idea, an error in thinking
• someone who expects a good outcome
• frightened, uneasy, anxious
• filled with self-importance, overly proud and vain
• lacking worldly experience, unsuspecting, unsophisticated

Which definition matches the word naive?

• a mistaken idea, an error in thinking
• someone who expects a good outcome
• frightened, uneasy, anxious
• filled with self-importance, overly proud and vain
• lacking worldly experience, unsuspecting, unsophisticated

Which definition matches the word optimist?

• a mistaken idea, an error in thinking
• someone who expects a good outcome
• frightened, uneasy, anxious
• filled with self-importance, overly proud and vain
• lacking worldly experience, unsuspecting, unsophisticated

The most _____1_______thing that a middle school student can say is that they'll do better in high school.

• apprehensive
• arrogant
• fallacy
• naive
• optimist

It is a _____2_______to believe that you can do nothing in middle school and then have a successful high school career.

• apprehensive
• arrogant
• fallacy
• naive
• optimist

Those that believe this are not just being an ____3______,

• apprehensive
• arrogant
• fallacy
• naive
• optimist

they are being_____4___.

• apprehensive
• arrogant
• fallacy
• naive
• optimist

Middle school is the time when you are meant to build the habits that you need to be successful and I am always ____5_________when students tell me that they'll "do better next year."

• apprehensive
• arrogant
• fallacy
• naive
• optimist