Vocabulary Quiz for Grade 8

What is the term for something given or received as an equivalent for services, debt, loss, or injury?

• Conceive

• Compensation

• Condole

• Credulity

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Which word means to form a notion or idea of something; to imagine?

• Conceive

• Condole

• Derision

• Grimace

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What does it mean to express sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow or grief?

• Credulity

• Condole

• Hypocritical

• Intensify

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What is the term for a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true?

• Derision

• Credulity

• Grimace

• Justify

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which word describes contemptuous ridicule or mockery?

• Derision

• Parallel

• Peril

• Resignation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is a facial expression that indicates disapproval or pain?

• Hypocritical

• Grimace

• Intensify

• Vex

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What does it mean to behave in a way that suggests one has higher standards than is the case?

• Hypocritical

• Intensify

• Justify

• Stifle

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Which word means to make something more acute or to strengthen it?

• Parallel

• Intensify

• Peril

• Resignation

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

What does it mean to show that an act or statement is just or right?

• Justify

• Stifle

• Vehemently

• Vex

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Which term describes lines that extend in the same direction and never converge or diverge?

• Peril

• Parallel

• Resignation

• Technique

Tags

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1