Critical Vocab

Which of these is NOT a contribution you can make to help make your school a better place?

• Put trash that someone left on the field into the garbage can.

• Be friendly and polite to everyone in school.

• Eat the school lunch every day.

• Take part during class time, and ask questions when you don't understand something.

Under which circumstances would a Sports Day most likely be cancelled?

• If it rained very heavily that morning.

• If some students were not good at sports.

• If one P.E. teacher was absent through sickness.

• If a couple of students in the school had broken their arm.

If you think of an idea to create something you have ________ of it.

• prototyped

• circumstanced

• impulsed

• conceived

The act of moving faster, or speeding up, is called...

• deceleration

• acceleration

• protoceleration

• disceleration

We can describe this eagle woman as a passionate soccer fan, because she...

• has strong emotions about her soccer team

• is wearing a bald eagle mask

• is American

• doesn't care too much if her team wins or loses

Father Dougal had a strong ________ to press the button, even though he knew he shouldn't. This means he had a strong desire to press it.

• eccentric

• contribution

• prototype

• impulse

The inventor built a ________, or model, to show what the phone with an extendable screen would look like.

• evidently

• auditorium

• prototype

• patent

The distinguished scientist received a Nobel Prize for Medicine. Someone or something that is distinguished...

• reviews or examines something carefully

• has a strong desire to do something

• is a little bit weird, mad, or crazy

• commands great respect

________, the cat ate all of the cookies. It was obvious!

• evidently

• unclear

• happily

• invisibly

The man's fashion sense is, in my opinion, rather ________, or strange.

• cool

• eccentric

• elite

• prestigious