Vocab. #2 12th Grade

An arrogant person is usually someone who is ___________.

• proud and overbearing

• shy and quiet

• skinny

• hard-working

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

If you are complacent, it means that you are ________.

• smug and satisfied

• overly ambitious

• a pyromaniac

• bipolar

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Contemptuous means almost the same thing as _______.

• disdainful

• bedraggled

• lackluster

• vapid

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Egotistical has the word "ego" in it, which means I, so egotistical means you are ___________.

• self-centered

• generous

• absent-minded

• philosophical

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CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

The next-door neighbors are too ________ to drive a Ford or Chevrolet; they think they have to have a BMW or Mercedes.

• haughty

• insolent

• insipid

• banal

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The boy was very __________ and rude to his teacher when she asked him not to eat in class. He stamped his foot on the ground and said he could do whatever TF he wanted when he wanted. He sits now in ISS with Benjamin.

• insolent

• complacent

• insipid

• vapid

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

If you swagger around, are called pretentious, and even ostentatious, it means that you are probably___________.

• a show-off who thinks he is better than everyone else

• meek and humble--the salt of the earth

• a very loving and kind-hearted person who would do anything for anyone

• someone who is highly intelligent yet realizes that wisdom is earned.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Supercilious means almost the same thing as _________.

• contemptuous

• narcissist

• vapid

• banal

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CCSS.L.3.2F

Smug is to complacent as ______ is to ______.

• honest:forthright

• guileless: timid

• reclusive:servile

• candid:dainty

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Something that everyone says, like "apple of my eye," is a ________. Others might include, "best thing since sliced bread," "ninety to nothing," and "right as rain."

• cliche

• lackluster

• insipid

• braggart

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D