Vocabulary Strategies

Vocabulary

Some people say that ________ are just friends you haven’t met yet.

• peers

• strangers

• coaches

• colleagues

Vocabulary

I've got lots of ____________ but I think Aunt Paula and Uncle Joe are my favourites.

• enemies

• partners

• classmates

• relatives

to pull out or remove; to move back or away; retreat

• duplicate

• withdraw

• provoke

• conceal

to do, make happen, succeed in, carry through

• accomplish

• conceal

• undoing

• apparent

very great or very large

• capacity

• keen

• vast

• civilian

open to view; easy to understand; seeming to be true or real

• conceal

• duplicate

• apparent

• spurt

a bringing to ruin or destruction; the cause of ruin; unfastening or loosening

• capacity

• undoing

• spurt

• conceal

Which word means to understand or grasp the meaning of something?

• A) comprehend

• B) obscure

• C) fabricate

• D) dismiss

What is the term for a word that has the opposite meaning of another word?

• A) synonym

• B) antonym

• C) homonym

• D) acronym

Choose the word that best completes the sentence: 'The detective was able to ______ the mystery with ease.'

• A) solve

• B) complicate

• C) ignore

• D) conceal