A Sound of Thunder Vocabulary

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English
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8th Grade
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Beverly Schwantes
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What word means to shake or tremble
merest
quaver
phlegm
graft
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Thick mucus that is usually coughed up during a cold or other respiratory infection.
teeming
disproportion
graft
phlegm
Tags
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Paper made out of the skin of an animal during ancient times.
parchment
phlegm
graft
delirium
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.9-10.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Brightly colored bands of light, visible around Earth’s geomagnetic poles, caused by solar wind interacting with particles in Earth’s magnetic field. (Northern Lights)
dictatorship
aurora
annihilate
paradox
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Smallest or slightest amount
militarist
revoke
annihilate
merest
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Government where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else.
dictatorship
militarist
Finicky
cavernous
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Graft means what?
Mismatch; to make out of proportion; no longer in balance
practices, especially bribery, used to secure dishonest gains in politics or business; corruption.
a statement or event that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
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