Vocabulary Units 1-6 Test, Level C

Leo Baekeland was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1863. His enterprising spirit was evident at the University of Ghent, where he studied chemistry and became a professor. Due to his prodigious intellect, Baekeland received a fellowship in New York in 1889; he later moved there permanently. While in New York, he invented Velox photographic paper and became wealthy. In his estate in Yonkers, he had a home laboratory where he and his assistant, Nathaniel Thurlow, collaborated on a range of projects.

What does enterprising most likely mean as it is used in the paragraph above?

• cautious

• diffident

• neutral

• energetic

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6

Leo Baekeland was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1863. His enterprising spirit was evident at the University of Ghent, where he studied chemistry and became a professor. Due to his prodigious intellect, Baekeland received a fellowship in New York in 1889; he later moved there permanently. While in New York, he invented Velox photographic paper and became wealthy. In his estate in Yonkers, he had a home laboratory where he and his assistant, Nathaniel Thurlow, collaborated on a range of projects.

What does prodigious most likely mean as it is used in the paragraph above?

• average

• obscure

• tremendous

• flexible

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6

Leo Baekeland was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1863. His enterprising spirit was evident at the University of Ghent, where he studied chemistry and became a professor. Due to his prodigious intellect, Baekeland received a fellowship in New York in 1889; he later moved there permanently. While in New York, he invented Velox photographic paper and became wealthy. In his estate in Yonkers, he had a home laboratory where he and his assistant, Nathaniel Thurlow, collaborated on a range of projects.

In this paragraph, collaborated means about the same as which of the words below?

• worked quietly

• worked together

• worked creatively

• worked alone

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6

Baekeland soon became obsessed with soluable resins, and he and Thurlow experimented with these products. They developed a phenol-formaldehyde shellac called Novolak, but it was not successful. In 1907, Baekeland altered his focus from created a wood coating to infusing resin into wood to strengthen it.

What is the meaning of obsessed as it is used in the paragraph above?

• concerned

• reminded

• repulsed

• preoccupied

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6

Just when Baekeland believed that he had come close to creating the resin he needed, he heated this substance in a pressure cooker known as a "bakelizer" - and a hard, moldable plastic was formed. Baekeland realized the new substance had potential. Bakelite was the first plastic that held its shape after being heated, and Baekeland received a patent for Bakelite in 1909. In 1910, Baekeland's laboratory was not ample enough for his company's semicommercial production; consequently, he founded the General Bakelite Company in 1910 to manufacture and market Bakelite. Bakelite marketed itself as "The Material of a Thousand Uses."

Which word means the OPPOSITE of ample in the paragraph above?

• inadequate

• inconsiderate

• inarticulate

• indeterminate

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6

Match the following

• assert

• pleasantly, cheerful, or warm

• ostracize

• to declare or state as truth, maintain, defend

• genial

• to support, nourish, keep up

• sustain

• to exclude from a group, banish, send away

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6

Match the following

• anguish

• bored as a result of having enjoyed many pleasures

• blase

• elaborately decorated

• jurisdiction

• great suffering, distress, or pain

• ornate

• an area of authority or control

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6

Select the item that means the same as the underlined word.

performed with finesse

• credulity

• deviousness

• subtlety

• clumsiness

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6

Select the item that means the same as the underlined word.

bask in the warmth

• be upset by

• take pleasure in

• miss feeling

• take offense at

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6

Select the item that means the same as the underlined word.

deplore the situation

• enjoy

• survive

• bemoan

• analyze

Tags

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.2.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.b

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.c

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.6