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6th Grade: Vocabulary Unit 1

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Kamirae felt _____________________ beneath the weight of all his football equipment.

a)

constructive

b)

bulky

c)

medieval

d)

undefined

2.

Because Shanyah forgot her sunglasses, she needed to _____________________ in direct sunlight at the beach.

a)

carburetor

b)

mumble

c)

guzzle

d)

squint

3.

Naim and Nahiem tried to _____________________ Miss Banner by talking about their newest comics before class began.

a)

stall

b)

deploy

c)

coincidence

d)

rake

4.

Jamir and Malik were ready to _____________________ up the fans at their basketball game.

a)

stall

b)

scurry

c)

scramble

d)

rile

5.

Nalanie forgot to raise her hand, so her answer came out as a _____________________.

a)

minefield

b)

blurt

c)

churn

d)

squint

6.

Because Reggie is an honest leader, he is always sure to tell the _____________________ truth.

a)

absolute

b)

blurt

c)

coincidence

d)

dopey

7.

Khalaya felt the butterflies in her stomach start to _____________________ before she went on stage to perform her solo.

a)

rile

b)

rake

c)

churn

d)

scurry

8.

Takima borrowed Aubrey’s _____________________ to gather up all the leaves in the yard.

a)

coincidence

b)

rake

c)

bouquet

d)

flaw

9.

Miss Banner couldn’t hear Khaila’s answer; she was speaking with merely a _____________________.

a)

peasant

b)

blurt

c)

mumble

d)

humiliating

10.

Miss Banner made sure that even when the students were in recess, lunch, and with their friends, that the sixth graders didn’t use any _____________________ comments toward each other.

a)

rake

b)

absolute

c)

inappropriate

d)

impressive

11.

Khalaya continued to ______________________ the dancer’s steps in the music video until she mastered the choreography.

a)

impressive

b)

rake

c)

mimic

d)

deploy

12.

The ships, carrying the soldiers ready to ______________________ for duty, left the dock early that morning before sunrise.

a)

poach

b)

rake

c)

deploy

d)

adhere

13.

In an attempt to avoid the ______________________ laughter from the other kids on the playground, Joshua helped his brother after he tripped and fell.

a)

trigger

b)

deflating

c)

coincidence

d)

humiliating

14.

When Malik saw the movie trailer for the new Mary Poppins Musical, it ______________________ his memory of singing “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” for Sponsors’ Night in third grade.

a)

exasperated

b)

deployed

c)

mimicked

d)

triggered

15.

Brooklyn was ______________________ with the amount of homework she had been given that day at school, so she ______________________ all the way home with her two-ton book bag.

a)

trudged ; gifted

b)

gifted ; raked

c)

exasperated ; trudged

d)

deflated ; trudged

16.

It was no ______________________ that Miss Banner was conducting a notebook check the day after we took a copious amount of notes in class; I think she did that on purpose!

a)

inappropriate

b)

mimic

c)

coincidence

d)

holster

17.

Reggie and Naim carefully placed their sabres away in their ______________________ after fencing during gym class.

a)

rakes

b)

guzzle

c)

medieval

d)

holsters

18.

Jamir helped to ______________________ the disagreement between his friends at recess; he didn’t want them to still be upset when they came into the school.

a)

rile

b)

trigger

c)

mimic

d)

deflate

19.

Because Khaila was such a ______________________ writer, she was chosen out of all the students to participate in the contest.

a)

exasperated

b)

expectation

c)

undefined

d)

gifted

20.

“What are you trying to _______________________?” Za’ni asked her cousin who rolled his eyes at her.

a)

mumble

b)

trigger

c)

dopey

d)

imply

21.

Angelise’s drawing represented a _______________________ time with knights, sword fights, and Renaissance people.

a)

optimist

b)

holster

c)

medieval

d)

peasant

22.

Kamirae and Jamir were running around so much in gym class that they needed to _______________________ their water straight from the fountain.

a)

guzzle

b)

imply

c)

adhere

d)

bland

23.

Takima is an _______________________ because she is always happy, positive, and looks on the bright side.

a)

exasperated

b)

optimist

c)

absolute

d)

constructive

24.

When the sixth grade boys walked into Sponsor’s Night in their best suits, Ms. Williams exclaimed, “You all look _______________________ tonight!”

a)

flawed

b)

medieval

c)

impressive

d)

inappropriate

25.

Because she woke up late, Khaila found herself having to _______________________ to get ready for school and catch the bus.”

a)

carburetor

b)

rile

c)

poach

d)

scurry

26.

“Make sure your comments and suggestions are only _______________________,” Miss Banner instructed the class before Peer Editing their essays.

a)

inappropriate

b)

carburetor

c)

medieval

d)

constructive

27.

Khalaya needed to add more spices to her _______________________ soup.

a)

poached

b)

raked

c)

bland

d)

inappropriate

28.

Reggie wanted to recreate his entire drawing after he noticed a small _______________________ in his tracing.

a)

inappropriate

b)

scramble

c)

mumble

d)

flaw

29.

Miss Banner reinforced her classroom _______________________ when the sixth grade students weren’t following directions.

a)

holsters

b)

absolute

c)

expectations

d)

stalls

30.

Miss Banner had a ____________________________ look on her face as the students told her a ridiculous story.

a)

exasperated

b)

undefined

c)

inappropriate

d)

dopey

31.

Za’ni’s fashion sense is ____________________________; she simply chooses pieces she likes from many different styles and puts them all together.

a)

dopey

b)

inappropriate

c)

undefined

d)

medieval

32.

Khaila wrote a powerful essay about the reasons why activists should protest the illegal ____________________________ of wildlife.

a)

poaching

b)

inappropriate

c)

deflating

d)

scurrying

33.

Kamirae ____________________________ to the bus in a rush before it drove away without him.

a)

poached

b)

scurried

c)

riled

d)

trudged

34.

Nalanie kept gluing her art project of a ____________________________ together until the flowers began to ____________________________.

a)

carburetor ; raked

b)

bouquet ; adhere

c)

bouquet ; constructive

d)

constructive ; bouquet

35.

Even though Aubrey missed the lesson during cello practice, she was able to figure out the math problems ____________________________.

a)

undefined

b)

logically

c)

coincidentally

d)

absolutely

36.

Jamir was excited for shop class to learn how to replace the ____________________________ of an engine.

a)

rake

b)

logic

c)

carburetor

d)

poach

37.

Nahiem taught the other players how to navigate around the ____________________________ on the video game so that his team wouldn’t have any casualties.

a)

logoically

b)

carburetor

c)

minefield

d)

peasant

38.

Reggie was cast as the wealthy king in the play, while most of the other students in the chorus played the parts of the ____________________________.

a)

poachers

b)

peasants

c)

medievals

d)

optimists