Quiz on Definitions and Meanings

What is the role of a midwife?

• A person who helps women during childbirth.

• A person who learns a job by working for someone.

• The main character in a work of fiction.

• A group of words with a particular meaning.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Who is an apprentice?

• A person who helps women during childbirth.

• A person who learns a job, skill, art, or trade by working for someone who has mastered it.

• The main character in a work of fiction.

• A person who makes fun of someone in a hurtful way.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

What does the term "protagonist" refer to?

• A person who helps women during childbirth.

• A person who learns a job by working for someone.

• The main character in a work of fiction.

• A group of words with a particular meaning.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is an idiom?

• A person who helps women during childbirth.

• A person who learns a job by working for someone.

• The main character in a work of fiction.

• A group of words that has a particular meaning not related to the meanings of its individual words.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What does it mean to taunt someone?

• To help women during childbirth.

• To learn a job by working for someone.

• To make fun of someone in a hurtful way or to provoke that person.

• To feel very lonely or without hope.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What does "contented" mean?

• Deeply unhappy; miserable.

• Feeling or demonstrating happiness with one’s life or a particular situation.

• Feeling very lonely or without hope.

• To make fun of someone in a hurtful way.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What does "wretched" mean?

• Feeling or demonstrating happiness with one’s life.

• Deeply unhappy; miserable; in a terrible condition.

• Feeling very lonely or without hope.

• A group of words with a particular meaning.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What does "desolate" mean?

• Feeling or demonstrating happiness with one’s life.

• Deeply unhappy; miserable.

• Feeling very lonely or without hope.

• To make fun of someone in a hurtful way.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What does the prefix "be-" mean?

• To cause to be; treat as; make

• To destroy completely

• To move quickly

• To create something new

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What does the word "begrudge" mean?

• To give generously

• To envy someone the possession or enjoyment of something

• To forget something important

• To celebrate someone's success

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4