Tie Breaker

The city council concurred with the excellent recommendations of the library committee.

The word concurred most clearly mean...

• Rejected

• Stopped

• Agreed

• Argued

The mother bathed the baby in the tepid water.

In the sentence, the word tepid most clearly means...

• Lukewarm

• Hot

• Muddy

• Cold

Read this paragraph:

The search went on. She knew that there were other policemen in the garden all around the house. She could hear their footsteps on the gravel outside, and sometimes she saw a flash of a torch through a chink in the curtains. It began to get late, nearly nine she noticed by the clock on the mantle. The four men searching the rooms seemed to be growing weary, a trifle exasperated.

What does the word “exasperated” mean as it is used in this section?

• frustrated

• sleepy

• furious

• hopeless

To express sorrow, mourning, or regret

• Anger

• Lament

• Revenge

• Anxiety

Being unguarded, exposed, and capable of being hurt.

• Sensitive

• Simple-minded

• Artistic

• Vulnerable

Green : go :: ______ : stop.

• Red
• Pause
• Yellow
• Drive

In : out :: up : ______

• Above
• Down
• Near
• Round

cobbler : leather :: carpenter : _________

• furniture

• wood

• hammer

• chair

plant : seed :: ______ : bud

• leaf

• flower

• twig

• fruit

page : book :: leaf : _______

• forest

• root

• red

• tree