Vocabulary 2.1 Quiz

What is your name?

1. If authorities ____________________________ someone for minor offenses, they sometimes learn how to commit much more serious crimes while in prison.

• incumbent
• pecuniary
• incarcerate
• pusillanimous

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

2. The _______________________ governor lost in the election, and he lost his position as leader of the state.

• incumbent
• pecuniary
• incarcerate
• pusillanimous

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

3. The house was in complete _____________________ with clothes all over the place, dishes all over the countertops, and broken pieces of furniture all over the floor.

• ludicrous
• disarray
• bastion
• frenetic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

4. When I arrived home, my father was _______________ in the reclining chair.

• recumbent
• incumbent
• bastion
• stratagem

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

5. When the stock market crashed, the millionaire’s _______________________ status changed dramatically and ended with him in a state of poverty.

• jocular
• atrophy
• frenetic
• pecuniary

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.3

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

6. You'll look mildly _____________________ standing on the side of the road holding this giant plant while wearing a banana costume, but it will draw attention to our business.

• recumbent
• atrophy
• ludicrous
• pecuniary

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

7. a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent

• disarray
• bastion
• pusillanimous
• stratagem

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

8.the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; progressive decline or failure

• disarray
• atrophy
• pusillanimous
• stratagem

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

9. contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited

• disarray
• atrophy
• pusillanimous
• stratagem

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6