LEVEL C, UNIT 14A VOCABULARY PRACTICE (due date: Thursday, May 12)
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LEVEL C, UNIT 14A VOCABULARY PRACTICE
- Every answer will be found on the definitions page, so use the resource as a guide. -
DEFINITIONS
DIRECTIONS:
1. Identify the vocabulary word that matches the definition provided. (10 points)
*You may only put one word in each box for your answer.
*Each vocabulary word will only be used one time.
Question 1
1.
to search or examine thoroughly; to rob, plunder
Question 2
2.
to deny interest in or connection with; to give up all claim to
Question 3
3.
a temporary peace, halt in fighting
Question 4
4.
able to meet one's financial obligations; having the power to dissolve other substances; a liquid used to dissolve other substances; something that solves, explains, eliminates, or softens
Question 5
5.
innocent, unsophisticated, showing lack of worldly knowledge and experience
Question 6
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a decorative recess in a wall; a suitable place or position for a person or thing
Question 7
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to please, satisfy; to indulge or humor
Question 8
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exceedingly great, inexhaustible, without limit, endless; an incalculable number, the concept of infinity; (cap. I) a name for God
Question 9
9.
gentle, soothing, mild; lacking interest or taste
Question 10
10.
long and tiresome
PARTS OF SPEECH
DIRECTIONS:
1. Select the part of speech for each vocabulary word provided. (10 points)
*If there is more than one part of speech, select multiple options.
*If a secondary part of speech is not listed below (ex. participial), it does not need to be included.
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SYNONYMS
DIRECTIONS:
1. Select the word that means the SAME as the vocabulary word provided. (10 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
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ANTONYMS
DIRECTIONS:
1. Select the word that means the OPPOSITE of the vocabulary word provided. (8 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
Question 31
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COMPLETING THE SENTENCES
DIRECTIONS:
1. Identify the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence provided. (10 points)
*You may only put one word in each box for your answer.
*Each vocabulary word will only be used one time.
*Look to see if the word requires a suffix to be added (example: -ed, -s, -es, -ing).
Question 39
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The number of stars and grains of sand are often cited as examples of something _____ .
Question 40
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Hustlers wait by the bus station to find _____ newcomers to the city who will be fooled by their lies.
Question 41
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The senator tried to _____ any involvement with organized crime, but his campaign finance records told a different story.
Question 42
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Grandmother keeps glass statues up in a _____ set into the wall so that her cats can't jump up and knock them down.
Question 43
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I had shown some interest in seeing photos of their trip, but I was not prepared to sit for hours and listen to their _____ explanations of each photo.
Question 44
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Chemists added a mystery _____ to the gooey compound, and it began to run as smoothly as water.
Question 45
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Some children are impossible to _____ ; no matter how much you try to please them, they can never be satisfied.
Question 46
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The raccoons love to _____ the garbage searching for that one tasty piece of rotten fruit.
Question 47
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On November 11, 1918, the Allied and Axis powers signed an _____ that ended four years of bloody war on the battlefields of Europe.
Question 48
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The doctor told her patient with stomach ulcers to give up spicy foods and to eat a _____ diet.