9.2 Critical Vocab: The Loch Ness Monster & Finding Bigfoot

The player had such good dribbling skills, he was almost impossible to stop. He was...

• elusive

• convinced

• theoretical

• earnest

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

The men ________ attempted to escape from the policemen chasing them

• theoretically

• sneakily

• desperately

• earnestly

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

I can't believe you were _________ that this was a real sighting of Bigfoot, it's obviously a hoax!

• theoretical

• desperate

• convinced

• encounter

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

This is clearly a ________ product, there is no way it could be real!

• hoax

• delicious

• misperception

• elusive

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Elaine bumped into Uncle Leo when she went to the clinic. She didn't expect to _________, or meet, him there.

• misperception

• date

• sighting

• encounter

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Time travel is a ________ idea, it hasn't been proven to be truly possible, yet.

• crazy

• theoretical

• misperception

• hoax

Spiffy the dog was severely _______ by his owner for peeing all over the sofa.

• applauded

• scalded

• encountered

• chastised

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

A common ________ is that it is unsafe to eat food past its use-by date. Actually, this is an incorrect understanding, because most foods can be eaten safely just after the expiration date.

• hoax

• misperception

• proverb

• convinced

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Using his binoculars, the man made a ________ of the rare Mikado pheasant.

• omelette

• misperception

• hoax

• sighting

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Woody ________ tried to convince his friends that he was telling the truth.

• earnestly

• theoretically

• hoaxly

• joyfully

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4