Gatsby Vocabulary Review

Which of the following is an example of contemptuous behavior?

• booing a public speaker

• welcoming an honored guest

• interviewing a controversial author

• contacting an old classmate

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

complacency means :

• the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

• vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment

• a predisposition to like something

• feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When would someone most likely have to extemporize?

• when giving an unplanned speech

• when studying for an exam

• when making payments on a loan

• when cooking breakfast

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

levity has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• glee

• frailty

• duress

• Stupidity

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

supercilious has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• sneering

• heterogeneous

• restive

• obtainable

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

It was hard to overstate the mood of elation Saturday at Cowboys Stadium, which will host next season’s Super Bowl. Source: New York Times In the sentence above, elation has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• lightness

• throes

• premonition

• Bereavement

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

unobtrusive means :

• not undesirably noticeable

• instructive

• conspicuously and offensively loud

• deeply agitated especially from emotion

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

fractious has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• disobedient

• indifferent

• pitiful

• Dejected

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"You can't go, Miss Standish!" he said, in stern command, as if rebuking some fractious child. In the sentence above, fractious has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• disobedient

• confused

• overeager

• Intolerable

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The tone was curt, peremptory, even haughty. In the sentence above, peremptory has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• high-and-mighty

• avant-garde

• dim-witted

• self-incriminating

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4