Of Mice and Men Vocabulary Review

What vocabulary word best fits the sentence below?

When the girl was stricken with chicken pox, her skin was ______________ with itchy, painful spots.

• dignity

• gravity

• mottled

• imperious

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What vocabulary word best fits the sentence below?

I thought to myself, would you please shut up and stop your incessant _______________ before I clobber you over the head?

• mottling

• yammering

• pantomiming

• apprehensiving

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What vocabulary word best fits the sentence below?

As a pacifist, I avoid all ________________ people, as I do not like to interact with aggressive individuals.

• pugnacious

• apprehensive

• imperious

• recumbent

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What vocabulary word best fits the sentence below?

The policeman in the middle of the intersection _____________ which direction the cars should go in order to avoid hitting one another.

• yammered

• pantomimed

• disengaged

• recumbent

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What vocabulary word best fits the sentence below?

Upon seeing the teenager squalling in the middle of the parking lot, tears and snot running down his face as he sat in a pathetic heap, the woman said, "My goodness, that child lacks ____________!"

• elaborate

• gravity

• burlap

• dignity

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a synonym for gravity?

• beauty

• intelligence

• seriousness

• humanity

What is a synonym for gingerly?

• gorgeously

• happily

• hesitantly

• discreetly

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a synonym for imperious?

• haughty

• appreciative

• reverential

• duplicituous

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a synonym for profound?

• massive

• discerning

• simple

• confound

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

What is an antonym for disengage?

• entangle

• interpret

• unite

• confuse

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5B