Vocabulary Quiz

With a feeling of vague or regretful longing

• Wistfully

• Cynical

• Haughty

• Strident

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The action or state of forcing or being forced to do something

• Compulsion

• Vitality

• Innuendo

• Defer

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Neatly skillful and quick in one’s movements

• Deft

• Solemn

• Anemic

• Erroneous

Believing that people are motivated by self-interest

• Cynical

• Infinitesimal

• Vacuous

• Permeate

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Lacking color or life

• Anemic

• Incessant

• Discreet

• Mar

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Careful and circumspect in one’s speech or actions

• Discreet

• Supercilious

• Contemptuously

• Haughty

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Without stopping

• Incessant

• Erroneous

• Vacuous

• Defer

Loud; harsh; grating

• Strident

• Solemn

• Infinitesimal

• Permeate

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

An allusive or oblique remark, typically suggestive

• Innuendo

• Compulsion

• Vitality

• Mar

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence

• Vacuous

• Deft

• Cynical

• Solemn

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6