Merriam-Webster Vocab Builder Unit 2

A megalomaniac is best described as:

• A mental disorder marked by feelings of great personal power or importance

• Someone who is extremely self-centered

• One who consumes too much alcohol

• One who steals compulsively

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What does "psyche" mean?

• Mind

• Madness

• End

• Limit

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

What is the act of receiving called?

• Reception

• Intercept

• Perceptible

• Susceptible

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What does "definitive" mean?

• Authoritative and final; specifying precisely

• Caused by mental problems

• Open to influence

• Having definitive limits

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 "having definitive limits"?

• Finite

• Confine

• Reception

• Susceptible

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

How does a psychotherapist help people?

• By treating mental disorders with therapy

• By keeping people within limits

• By producing hallucinatory effects

• By seizing or interrupting

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

If something is "perceptible," what does that mean?

• It can be noticed or felt by the senses

• It is authoritative and final

• It is caused by mental problems

• It is extremely self-centered

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which of the following is NOT related to the root "mania"?

• Psychotherapist

• Kleptomaniac

• Dipsomaniac

• Megalomaniac

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

What does "intercept" mean?

• To stop, seize, or interrupt

• To keep within limits

• To treat mental disorders

• To be authoritative and final

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

If something is "definitive," it is:

• Authoritative and final; specifying precisely

• Open to influence

• Caused by mental problems

• Having definitive limits

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C