EB Academics Vocabulary Level B

A family that ruled over the British Empire for some time would be known as a 

• dynasty
• foretaste
• truce
• resume

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Which of the following is the opposite of gush?

• renovate
• trickle
• recompense
• insinuate

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CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

A friend who is brooding because of resentment over something that happened can be described as

• trivial
• interminable
• humdrum
• sullen

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

To suggest or hint slyly is to

• germinate
• alight
• insinuate
• disrupt

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

If an old theater has been restored to good condition, it has been

• disrupted
• germinated
• recompensed
• renovated

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Which of the following is another word for cease-fire?

• truce
• resume
• dynasty
• foretaste

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

They could board a plane in New York and alight in London only three hours later.

Alight means

• touch down
• take off
• live temporarily
• travel

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CCSS.L.5.5C

A synonym of interminable is

• short
• fleeting
• uncomfortable
• endless

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CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

If a plane hurtled through the air, it moved

• slowly
• noiselessly
• forcefully
• unsteadily

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CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

Perhaps they offer a foretaste of the future as well, since there are projects underway to build new airplanes that would make super fast flights a possibility again.

Foretaste means

• explanation
• preview
• technology
• memory

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CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4