Chapter 9: Sentence Check 1

The trial was a ________ of justice because several of the jurors had been bribed.

• travesty

• notorious

• facsimile

• provocative

• grotesque

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

King Henry VIII of England was ________ not only for getting married six times, but also for having two of his wives executed.

• facsimile

• grotesque

• provocative

• notorious

• travesty

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

To capture readers' attention, an author sometimes begins an article with a (n) question, such as, "Which do you think is more dangerous, climbing stairs or parachuting out of an airplane?"

• provocative

• notorious

• travesty

• grotesque

• facsimile

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

In some modern paintings, human figures are distorted into such ________shape that its hard to recognize facial features and body parts.

• travesty

• notorious

• provocative

• grotesque

• facsimile

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Lining the music school's hallway are framed _____s of handwritten pages of music by great composers.

• travesty

• notorious

• provocative

• grotesque

• facsimile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Legal documents are usually worded in such _________language that most people need a lawyer to translate the "legalese" into plain English.

• esoteric

• mesmerize

• perfunctory

• austere

• metamosphosis

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

As I stood looking at the grandfather clock, I became ________(e)d by the shiny pendulum that swung back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

• esoteric

• perfunctory

• mesmerize

• austere

• metamorphosis

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Usually the therapist showed great interest in her patients, but today she was too worried about her own family to give more than ____________ responses.

• metamorphosis

• austere

• perfunctory

• mesmerize

• esoteric

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

My sister's dormitory room is rather ________. with cement-block walls and bare floors, but she's made it less stark by hanging colorful posters and adding bright bedspreads and cushions.

• esoteric

• mesmerize

• perfunctory

• austere

• metamorphosis

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

The magician David Copperfield does a trick called "__________". One person is chained and locked in a box. When the box is opened, that person is gone, and someone else is chained there instead.

• mesmerize

• esoteric

• austere

• perfunctory

• metamorphosis

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4