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Vocabulary 1: Dialect Practice

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word means clearness of speech?

a)

stress

b)

diction

c)

accent

d)

stratification

2.

Which word means an equal in age or position?

a)

peer

b)

dialect

c)

hierarchy

d)

diction

3.

Which word means pressure or strain?

a)

accent

b)

enunciation

c)

stratum

d)

stress

4.

Which word means a regional form of a language?

a)

dialect

b)

hierarchy

c)

peer

d)

intelligibility

5.

Which word means a group organized by rank?

a)

articulation

b)

accent

c)

diction

d)

hierarchy

6.

Which word means to pronounce clearly?

a)

stratify

b)

enunciate

c)

stress

d)

intelligible

7.

Which word means clear and expressive?

a)

stress

b)

intelligible

c)

articulate

d)

dialect

8.

Which word means a style of pronunciation?

a)

enunciate

b)

peer

c)

hierarchy

d)

accent

9.

Which word means to separate into layers?

a)

stratify

b)

enunciate

c)

articulate

d)

stress

10.

Which word means understandable?

a)

intelligible

b)

stressful

c)

peer

d)

accented

11.

Which word BEST completes the sentence?

The club president _____ the club's reasons for wanting to raise money.

a)

accented

b)

stratified

c)

articulated

d)

enunciated

12.

Which word BEST complete the sentence?

My league is _____ into teams for new golfers and for experienced ones.

a)

stressed

b)

stratified

c)

accented

d)

articulated

13.

Which word BEST completes the sentence?

Most businesses are organized into a(n) _____, with positions ranging from entry level jobs to the CEO of the company.

a)

diction

b)

accent

c)

articulation

d)

hierarchy

14.

Which word BEST completes the sentence?

Large countries often include regions where people speak different _____ of the country's main language.

a)

dictions

b)

stratifications

c)

dialects

d)

peers

15.

Which word BEST completes the sentence?

The speaker's _____ revealed that she probably had grown up in England.

a)

accent

b)

stratification

c)

hierarchy

d)

intelligibility

16.

Which word BEST completes the sentence?

When dictating the spelling test, the teacher carefully ______ each word.

a)

enunciated

b)

stressed

c)

stratified

d)

accented

17.

Which word BEST completes the sentence?

The message on the answering machine was so garbled that it was barely _____.

a)

stressed

b)

hierarchal

c)

accented

d)

intelligible

18.

Which word BEST completes the sentence?

Do you think that choices of clothing are influenced by one's _____?

a)

stresses

b)

peers

c)

dialects

d)

accents

19.

Which word BEST completes the sentence?

It's hard to have good _____ when you talk with food in your mouth.

a)

hierarchy

b)

stratification

c)

dialect

d)

diction

20.

Which word BEST completes the sentence?

Many people experience great nervousness and _____ when speaking in public.

a)

stratification

b)

diction

c)

stress

d)

articulation

21.

Which pair of words BEST complete the sentence?

The _____ of the student club into a many-leveled _____ disappointed some members who had articulated their opposition to the plan.

a)

stress...

stratification

b)

stratification...

hierarchy

c)

enunciation...

dialect

22.

True or False?

People in different areas of the United States sometimes stress different syllables in the same word.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

True or False?

Dialect differences may include both different pronunciations of the same words and different words representing the same object.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

True or False?

Students and teachers are peers.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

True or False?

Diction and enunciation can be synonyms.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

What part of speech is the vocabulary word in this sentence?

The teacher told Jeremy that the intelligibility of his oral report would improve if he spoke more slowly and clearly.

a)

noun

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

27.

What part of speech is the vocabulary word in this sentence?

My former math teacher always stressed the importance of doing orderly work when solving problems.

a)

noun

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

28.

What part of speech is the vocabulary word in this sentence?

The accused person was tried by a jury of his peers.

a)

noun

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

29.

What part of speech is the vocabulary word in this sentence?

The substitute teacher's unfamiliar dialect was confusing to the students.

a)

noun

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

30.

What part of speech is the vocabulary word in this sentence?

The English teacher enunciates each syllable very deliberately.

a)

noun

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

31.

What part of speech is the vocabulary word in this sentence?

The actor's diction was so clear that even those in the back row of the auditorium could hear his every word.

a)

noun

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

32.

What part of speech is the vocabulary word in this sentence?

Earthquakes are one cause of visible stratifications in the earth's surface.

a)

noun

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

33.

What part of speech is the vocabulary word in this sentence?

Each time he plays that song, the drummer accents the first and third beats of every measure.

a)

noun

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

34.

What part of speech is the vocabulary word in this sentence?

Many large organizations have complicated hierarchies.

a)

noun

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

35.

What part of speech is the vocabulary word in this sentence?

Before every game last year, the coach articulated the game plan in detail.

a)

noun

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

36.

Choose the answer the BEST describes the action or situation.

Something arranged in a hierarchy.

a)

the military

b)

fruit

c)

a mall

d)

a book

37.

Choose the answer the BEST describes the action or situation.

A performer who would most likely use regional dialects.

a)

a pianist

b)

a storyteller

c)

a pantomimist

(silent actor)

d)

a ballerina

38.

Choose the answer that BEST describes the action or situation.

A common source of stress

a)

resting

b)

sleeping

c)

eating

d)

competing

39.

Choose the answer that BEST describes the action or situation.

Something you would accent

a)

a sentence

b)

a syllable

c)

a paragraph

d)

a letter

40.

Choose the answer that BEST describes the action or situation.

Someone who needs to be articulate

a)

a politician

b)

a wrestler

c)

a painter

d)

a runer

41.

Choose the answer that BEST describes the action or situation.

Something that should NOT be intelligible to everyone

a)

a phone message

b)

a public order

c)

a secret code

d)

your handwriting

42.

Choose the answer that BEST describes the action or situation.

Someone who would be your ultimate peer

a)

a friend

b)

a parent

c)

a twin

d)

a child

43.

Choose the answer that BEST describes the action or situation.

A place where you would be most likely to observe strata

a)

a rough ocean

b)

a rock cliff

c)

a parking lot

d)

a field of flowers

44.

Choose the answer that BEST describes the action or situation.

A performer who needs to have good diction

a)

a tap dancer

b)

a stage actor

c)

an acrobat

d)

a violinist

45.

Choose the answer that BEST describes the action or situation.

An event at which one should enunciate very clearly

a)

a sports center

b)

a rock concert

c)

a county fair

d)

a spelling bee