CONNOTATIONS 2023 ABILITY TEST

What are connotations?

• Words that end in vowels

• Dictionary definition of a word

• Words that have feelings attached to them

• Describing words

 

When you look up a word in the dictionary, you find its ___________.

• denotation

• connotation

Which of these words has the most positive connotation?

• Childish

• Youthful

• Immature

Which of these words has the most positive connotation?

• Nosy

• Curious

• Prying

Which of these words has the most negative connotation?

• Purebred

• Mutt

• Dog

Which of these words has the most positive connotation?

• Stubborn

• Persistent

• Strong-willed

Which of these words has the most negative connotation?

• Courageous

• Confident

• Conceited

Which word has the most positive connotation?

“a woman who has adjusted to many things in life and overcome many more, her face is full of strength. She has, we can see, wit and faith of a kind that keep her eyes lit and full of interest and expectancy. She is, in a word, a ________ woman. Her bearing is perhaps most like the noble bearing of the women of the Hereros of Southwest Africa - rather as if she imagines that as she walks she still bears a basket or a vessel upon her head.”

• fine

• pretty

• cute

• beautiful

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9.1.1

McDonald's is an inexpensive meal. If you change the word inexpensive to cheap, the word now has a ____ connotation.

• positive
• negative

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9.1.2

I recognized the familiar smell of my roommate's cooking. If you change the word smell to stench, the word now has a ____________ connotation.

• positive
• negative

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9.1.2