Multiple
Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
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I’ve completed the
following challenges, received a mark and feedback: a. | Challenge #1 & Portfolio Word List | d. | Challenge #4 & #5 review
page | b. | Challenge #2 | e. | All of the Above | c. | Challenge #3 | | | | |
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The veteran teacher continually
__________________ his young students for missing his amazingingly constructed and creative
assignments. Argh. a. | badgered | c. | implored | b. | coaxed | d. | advocated | | | | |
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The student, motivated to
complete her thrilling and highly researched I.S.U. by the December deadline (first week),
______________________ her teacher for help to finalize the draft of her report. a. | begged | c. | perceived | b. | implored | d. | prognosticated | | | | |
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To “to pour oil on
troubled waters...” means... a. | to pour oil on water that is troubled (not
in an emotional sense) | c. | to make peace and to calm someone down | b. | to admit your error and move on with life | d. | to wake Student #7 from his
slumber | | | | |
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What is the correct way to
pronounce “interminable”? a. | in-ter-men-a-bel | c. | in-term-a-nable | b. | inter-me-nable | d. | inter-min-ab-el | | | | |
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Mr. Snoo from Classroom #7 was
sure to ___________________ as to the success that students will have crafting Level 4 reports for
his recent history researching task. a. | abound | c. | prognosticate | b. | indiscriminate | d. | automaton | | | | |
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An effective thesis statement
(according to what you have gleaned from our last workshop) must... a. | control, lead and inspire | c. | predict, obligate and control | b. | predict, control and educate | d. | obligate, obligate, life goes on...ON!
La-la-la-la life goes on! | | | | |
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Bethany does her chores early
Saturday morning so that she can dive, head first, into her homework - a task that her peers would
call “pure ________________”. a. | drudgery | c. | automaton | b. | prognosticate | d. | joy | | | | |
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Mainan, the young lad from
Tech-Lab #7 frolicked joyfully through the suspended wires, _________________ with utter
glee. a. | abounding | c. | technology | b. | matron | d. | automaton | | | | |
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The aspiring flag football star
in Classroom #7 threw many a blazing pass to his teammates. Yet, once the season commenced, he
proved ___________________________. a. | to prognosticate the pending wins for his
team vs. the team from School District #7. | c. | to be a pig in a
poke | b. | to be a flash in the pan. | d. | Both A and B | | | | |
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What word list contains two
misspelled words? a. | paradox, realm, annals, compound,
tinge | c. | paridox, realm, annals, compound, tenge | b. | paradox, realm, anals, compond, ting | d. | piridox, realm, annals, compound,
tinge | | | | |
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Her gloom was now __________by
the failing mark on his geometry test. a. | paradoxical | c. | compounded | b. | annals | d. | tinged | | | | |
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If you are having trouble in
picking the right definitions, it may be best ______________________. a. | to leave them until you learn their correct
definitions | c. | go fish for wild Pacific salmon. | b. | run and panic - embracing fate. | d. | not to do them in the order
given. | | | | |
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What does the word
“tinge” mean? a. | to increase or add
to | c. | to eat sparingly | b. | to select in small
portions | d. | a trace, smattering or slight degree | | | | |
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A “flash in the
pan” means to what? a. | Promising to start but then disappointing
people because you never fini... | c. | Joining a baseball league when you should have remained a part of the
National Push-Up Club | b. | Overcook scramble
eggs. | d. | I have no idea. | | | | |
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The cruel, but ever forgiving
Mr. Snoo, never the one to self-efface, would never allow his illustrious students to enter the
_____________ of despair. He’s a funny guy! a. | realm | c. | world | b. | annals | d. | classroom | | | | |
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The stalwart youth remained
utterly still for what seemed to be an _________________ 61.4 hours. a. | eternal | c. | brief, but lengthly | b. | interminable | d. | never ending | | | | |
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Will you download, print and
complete the Review page identified as Spelling #5 today?
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Problem
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19.
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Calculate the square root of
the solution for the Order of Operations problem below and then multiply that solution by 0.5
to list words that contain the same number of syllables (e.g., if your number is 3, then list
words that contain 3 syllables. Got it?):
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20.
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In the space below, describe
your “word game” that you designed to help one understand the spelling words and their
spellings.
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