Vocabulary Quiz for Grade 11

What does the word "spry" mean?

• Lacking ambition or initiative

• Moving quickly and lightly

• Feeling great rapture or delight

• Filled with or evoking sadness

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which word describes someone who is "bad-tempered and combative"?

• Ornery

• Ecstatic

• Spry

• Doleful

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

What is the meaning of "rile"?

• To have determination

• Disturb, especially by minor irritations

• Walk in an emphatic or exaggerated way

• Without mercy or pity

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What does "shiftless" mean?

• Lacking ambition or initiative

• Difficult to control; unruly

• Uneducated in general; lacking knowledge

• Fairly large

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

Which word means "an act or expression of criticism and censure"?

• Temerity

• Reproof

• Caper

• Fodder

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

What does "remorseless" mean?

• Without mercy or pity

• Filled with or evoking sadness

• A feeling of intense righteous anger

• Gradually deprive or detach from

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is the meaning of "desecrate"?

• Remove the sacredness from a person or an object

• Trouble or afflict (someone) in mind or body

• Feeling great rapture or delight

• Lacking spirit or liveliness

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Which word describes someone who is "feeling great rapture or delight"?

• Languid

• Ecstatic

• Surly

• Portly

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What does "ail" mean?

• To have determination

• Trouble or afflict (someone) in mind or body

• A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun or amusement

• Unfriendly and inclined toward anger or irritation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is the meaning of "languid"?

• Lacking spirit or liveliness

• Fearless daring

• Coarse food composed of plants or leaves/stalks

• Fairly large

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4