WorksheetsFreshmen Honors WOW 09
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
Then, at the apex, the grass was thick again because no one sat there.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
The underlined word means:
the highest point of something
the recovery area
the turnaround point
the corner of two things meeting
As the Red Boar rounded the rocky spit of land, a white beach was revealed at the apex of the cove, upon which were assembled the refugees from Palancar Valley.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
What part of speech is the underlined word?
Noun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
There’s a disturbing, monkey-like glint of canines off to the sides when he grins.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
The underlined word is defined as:
conical-shaped teeth found in dogs and many other mammals
the innate qualities of a dog, like loyalty
the pointed end or tip of something
Have these precautions been put in place because of the recent influx of immigrants?
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
What part of speech is the underlined word?
Noun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Their noses were snoutlike, and their teeth were all pointed canines. Rick Riordan The Sea of Monsters
The underlined word is what part of speech?
Noun
Adverb
Verb
Adjective
Inside Amity Harbor’s courthouse, opposite the courtroom’s four tall windows, a table had been set up to accommodate the influx of newspapermen to the island.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
There are multiple definitions of the underlined word -- which one makes the most sense as used in this sentence.
arrival of many people or other things
the place at which one stream flows into another or into the sea
the mouth of a stream
act of flowing in
They have wives, children, occupations, and interests, they have a background which is so strong that the war cannot obliterate it.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
The definition of the underlined word is:
to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely
reduce (something) in quality or value; degrade
develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly favorable environment
direct one's hopes or ambitions toward achieving something.
His stars are different from the ones in the Bible: they’re wordless, they flame in an obliterating silence.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat’s Eye
What part of speech is the underlined word?
Verb
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
In his agony he perceived the word "fire" and felt flames licking at the torn bone and flesh.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver
A SYNONYM for the underlined word could be:
Sensed
Read
Judged
Ignored
If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too.
William P. Young -- The Shack
The underline verb,, a form of "perceive" is what part of speech?
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
Verb
Which of these sentences is a compound sentence?
That was the apex of his dream.
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
Moving toward the apex of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
At the apex of the curve the only course led away from the rim, and here there was no level.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
It stretched eighty-one feet skyward to the pyramidal apex onto which was affixed a hollow iron cross.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Which of the following sentences from Frankenstein is NOT a compound sentence?
Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave, and I the cause!
But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.
Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands; for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.
He wished as much as possible to obliterate the memory of the scenes that had taken place in Ireland and never alluded to them.
