The Loch Ness Monster/Finding Big Foot (HMH Vocabulary M9W2)

If you are __________ , you are scolded severely.

• chastised

• sightings

• earnest

• desperately

If there are __________ of something, people have seen it with their own eyes.

• sightings

• earnest

• desperately

• convinced

If you say something in __________ , you are very serious and believe it to be true.

• earnest

• desperately

• convinced

• misperception

If you are trying __________ , you are trying as hard as you can.

• desperately

• convinced

• misperception

• hoaxes

If you are __________ of something, you are certain that it happened.

• convinced

• misperception

• hoaxes

• elusive

A __________ is a misunderstanding.

• misperception

• hoaxes

• elusive

• theoretical

__________ are acts that involve tricking and lying to people.

• Hoaxes

• Elusive

• Theoretical

• Encounters

Something that is __________ is hard to find or understand.

• elusive

• theoretical

• encounters

• chastised

Something that is __________ is based on a guess rather than proof.

• theoretical

• encounters

• chastised

• sightings

__________ are meetings, especially those that are unplanned.

• Encounters

• Desperately

• Convinced

• Misperception