Although the play is titled Julius Caesar, I think that the _____ character, on whom all the action depends, is Mark Antony.
The Slam-Dunk Giveaway will send one lucky _____ on a paid vacation for two to lovely Hawaii.
The fact that she is not a member of the Board of Education does not _____ her criticisms of the school system.
His mind is closed, as though he had placed a(n) _____ on new ideas.
I am willing to become a veritable _____ in order to raise money for that most worthy cause.
It's good to be open to new ideas, but don't become so _____ that you have no firm opinions of your own.
When the United States gives out foreign aid, are the _____ nations supposed to make repayment?
It is a _____ to say that because no human being has ever traveled to Mars, no human being ever will.
We will not allow you to _____ your responsibilities as a leading citizen of this community.
She is a very severe critic, and the _____ comments in her reviews have made her many enemies.
With such a _____ appetite, the meat-eating dinosaur T. Rex was a horrifying hunter and scavenger.
As soon as the new highway extension was built, the sleepy town began to _____ with activity.
A favorite bedtime _____ of small children is to keep asking for a glass of water to delay having to go to sleep.
One of the _____ of modern art is to experiment with forms, materials, and processes to create new ways of looking at everyday objects.
I can forgive most human weaknesses, but I am _____ by hypocrisy.
“All that I have to _____ on you,” said the elderly father to his son, “is an honorable family name.”
Instead of launching a great _____ to save the world, why not try to help a few people in your own neighborhood?
She has a _____ mind that seems able to hold endless information and ideas on any subject.
Although the students made jokes about the coming exams, we knew that beneath the _____ they were quite worried.
Weather and pollution had so _____ the statue that its original expression was no longer distinguishable.
The four-foot waves made the boat pitch up and down, causing many passengers to become _____ .
Has anyone ever measured how many hours of TV time are needed to satisfy a small child's _____ appetite for cartoons?
One guiding _____ of our energy program is that it is just as important to avoid wasting energy as it is to increase its production.
The tall boy who appeared so _____ as he walked through the school corridors was agile and coordinated on the basketball court.
_____ fumes can produce injuries to eyes, skins, and lungs.
DIRECTIONS:
1. Read the following excerpts that contain vocabulary words from this unit. The vocabulary words are written in bold font.
2. Select the answer that best completes each question. (5 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
EXCERPT #1:
Scraps of popular songs were chorused with an enthusiasm
which was a strange prelude to a scientific lecture, and there was already a tendency to personal chaff which promised a jovial evening to others, however embarrassing it might be to the recipients of these dubious honors.
EXCERPT #1 Question: Recipients are those who _____ .
EXCERPT #2 Question: Something ungainly is _____ .
EXCERPT #3 Question: The act of bestowing involves _____ .
EXCERPT #4 Question: A ruse is a(n) _____ .
EXCERPT #5:
“Suppose,” he cried with feeble violence, “that all the debts in the world were called up simultaneously . . . what . . . would happen then?” I gave the self-evident answer that I should be a ruined man, upon which he jumped from his chair, [and] reproved me for my habitual levity . . .
EXCERPT #5 Question: A person who possesses levity is NOT _____ .
DIRECTIONS:
1. Read the following passage that contains vocabulary words from this unit. The vocabulary words are written in bold font.
2. Select the answer that best completes each question. (6 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
PASSAGE:
“So, Mom, now that we’ve loaded that ungainly old jukebox into the back of the van, where are we taking it?” I asked.
“The lucky recipient is going to be the Musical Museum in Deansboro. That’s in upstate New York, near Utica,” Mom answered.
“Musical Museum? You know I love music,” I said. “But what fun is it looking at a bunch of antique instruments locked away in display cases? And besides, this old piece of junk doesn’t even work anymore.”
“I expect that they’ll be able to fix it,” replied Mom. “This isn’t a stuffy, formal museum. It teems with odd instruments and mechanical music-making devices. Most have been repaired and restored so that interested visitors can actually play them.”
“Yeah, right,” I said with a caustic tone. “I suppose people just waltz into the place, grab an instrument, and start making beautiful music, just like that.” I snapped my fingers in the air.
“Just about! Most of the items in the collection are automatic instruments that work with the help of gears, motors, magnets, and switches. They play themselves,” said Mom. “The Musical Museum was originally a local man’s collection of unusual contraptions that make music. He was a voracious collector, and soon his house was filled to overflowing with musical gizmos. Eventually, he found a space capacious enough to hold his growing collection. Today, the museum has seventeen rooms devoted to the display of music boxes, jukeboxes, melodeons and harmoniums, old record players, player pianos, and other devices. I think you’ll really like it.” “So—hit the road, Jack!” I sang, grinning broadly. Mom was delighted. “Ah, that’s music to my ears,” she said.
The meaning of ungainly is _____ .
Recipient mostly nearly means _____ .
Teems is best defined as _____ .
Caustic most nearly means _____ .
Voracious most nearly means _____ .
Capacious is best defined as _____ .
DIRECTIONS:
1. Read each sentence and determine if the bold portion could be written better.
2. Select the answer that best completes each question. (6 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
PASSAGE:
In a curious way, Americans may owe certain features of the U.S. Constitution to Daniel Shays, just as sure as to James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and Ben Franklin.
During the Revolution, Shays, who was born and raised in Massachusetts, served for five years in the Continental Army. After the war, economical prosperity was followed by an acute financial depression. The Massachusetts legislature and courts remained deaf to the rising discontent of farmers and small businessmen like Shays. In January 1787, Shays headed a force of several hundred men who attack the federal arsenal at Springfield, where they were soundly defeated.
Shays escaped to Vermont, was sentenced to death, and he later received a pardon. Later in 1787, the significance of Shays’s Rebellion was felt most keenly in Philadelphia. Gathering there a few months after the rebellion for the Constitutional Convention, supporters of a strong federal government used the outbreak for their views as a persuasive argument.
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To fill to overflowing is to _____ .
An order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods is a(n) _____ .
Which of the following is the opposite of cramped?
Someone who has a huge appetite for books could be described as what kind of reader?
If a wall has been covered by spray-painted words, it has been _____ .
Which of the following is another word for beggar?
To make sick to the stomach is to _____ .
If the children at a day camp are well-behaved and easy to manage, they might be described as _____ .
Which of the following is another word for trick?
To formally give up an office or duty is to _____ .
A vote that has been invalidated has been _____ .
Which of the following is the opposite of graceful?
DIRECTIONS:
1. Read the following passage that contains vocabulary words from this unit. The vocabulary words are written in bold font.
2. Select the answer that best completes each question. (4 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
PASSAGE:
If anyone thinks that making up and telling jokes is easy, I can assure them that this idea is a fallacy. In fact, after working for weeks on a comedy act in order to try out for a talent show, I
have come up with a very different tenet—namely, that being funny takes serious effort. At first, when I tried my material out my brother Jack, he told me that it was only mildly amusing and perhaps even bland. I then went back to work and revised my act. When I performed it for Jack, however, I was surprised to hear that I had gone too far in the other direction and that my jokes were now rather caustic. It took one more try for me to find the right approach. According to Jack, my act now has the perfect degree of levity and I have a really good chance of making it into the show.
If an idea is a fallacy (sentence 1), it is _____ .
In sentence 2, tenet means _____ .
Which of the following words could be used to replace caustic (sentence 5)?
In sentence 7, levity means _____ .
DIRECTIONS:
1. Read the following passage that contains vocabulary words from this unit. The vocabulary words are written in bold font.
2. Select the answer that best completes each question. (4 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
PASSAGE:
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, who lived from 1833 to 1896, is famous for two things. First, he invented dynamite. Second, he set up a fund to be used for awards known as Nobel Prizes. These prizes are bestowed in six different areas, including the promotion of international peace. The Peace Prize was especially important to Nobel, since he experienced feelings of guilt over the death and injury his powerful exposive had caused, despite the fact that he had invented it with only constructive uses in mind. Since 1901, with the exception of certain years that were skipped, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded annually. It is awarded to an organization or one or more people who have crusaded for human rights or played a pivotal role in trying to end dangerous and stubborn conflicts around the world. Among the prize’s recipients are such world-famous figures as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., of the United States, Lech Walesa of Poland, and Mother Teresa of India.
Which of the following words could be used to replace bestowed (line 2)?
If people crusaded (line 7) for world peace, they _____ .
In line 7, pivotal means _____ .
The recipients (line 8) of a prize are those who _____ .