4.01 Quiz Review

The fifty pound pumpkin was gargantuan in size.

What does gargantuan mean?

• Small

• Large

• Average

• Colorful

Based on context clues in the passage below, trifle means ______________.

Her cat was dying, and she worried about a trifle like her torn dress!

• Little

• Giant

• Everything

• Hopeful

However, without a known cause or cure, CCD remains a conundrum. A conundrum is a-

• cost of food.

• known cause.

• puzzling problem.

• cure for a disease.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Because the conflagration was aided by wind, it was so destructive that every building in the area was completely burned to the ground.

What is the meaning of conflagration?

• earthquake

• massive fire

• hurricane

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Rather than be involved in clandestine meetings, they did everything quite openly.

What is the meaning of clandestine?

• loud

• secret

• sloppy

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What would be the best resource to use if a question asked for the pronunciation of a word? 

• Encyclopedia
• Thesaurus
• Dictionary
• Atlas

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.1B

CCSS.L.11-12.3A

What would be the best resource to use if you needed another word for "quiet?"

• Dictionary
• Atlas
• Thesaurus
• Encyclopedia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

You need to know the meaning of a word.

• atlas
• encyclopedia
• dictionary
• thesaurus

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

You want to find out if "funny" is a noun, verb, or adjective. What source do you use? 

• atlas
• encyclopedia
• dictionary 
• thesaurus

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

Mom took the lace sample to the mall in
search of something that would come close, or possibly match alltogeher. 
Which dictionary entry best defines the way in which SAMPLE is used above?

• a small part of anything    or one of a number, in-tended to show the quality, style, or nature  of the whole; specimen. 
• statistics; a subset 
  of a population: to 
  study a sample of 
  the total population.
• a sound of short duration, as a musical tone or a drum beat, digitally stored in a synthesizer for playback.
• an example
  serving as a speci-
  men:  a sample piece