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Spelling This!  Chapter 17-21

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

The student reached into his overbearing sachel to retrieve a bandage to conceal his bleeding ___________________.
a.
laceration
c.
castigation
b.
wound
d.
inflammation
 

 2. 

The illustrious and always effervescent Mr. Sarkar, demanded ______________ evidence of the student’s performance in his math portfolio.
a.
various
c.
variable
b.
multitudinous
d.
tangible
 

 3. 

The kind, but not so kind Mr. Snoo belittled their request to enable the ___________________ from coaching the young men’s soccer league.
a.
pedagogue
c.
octogenarian
b.
matronization
d.
laceration
 

 4. 

The young person felt that she would be __________________ for her decision to place strawberry milk in the chocolate milk container of Student #7.
a.
wounded
c.
promulgated
b.
castigated
d.
sordid
 

 5. 

Jake, the football star of Caledon East and from last Spelling Exam, was deeply amazed at how __________________ the tournament game’s chain of events were to transpire that afternoon:  it was of game-changing plays, violence, deceit,, illegal passes and screams of terror from the bleachers housing Student #7..
a.
abound
c.
castigate
b.
sordid
d.
tangible
 

 6. 

Despite all their protesting, the Emmas finally capitulated to the pressures of the day, realizing that she would, inevitably, be faced to deal with Hobson’s choice.
a.
Every person’s decision
c.
To have some choice.
b.
To have no choice at all.
d.
To never lie down in green pastures.
 

 7. 

The students were amazed (in awe, actually)  that after all these years, the ______________________ that was Mr. Sarkar, still looked amazing young and fit for his advanced age.
a.
elderly
c.
octogenarian
b.
handsome
d.
astute
 

 8. 

Sometimes, it’s easy to think that one can be so_____________________ in homework that one can’t make time for such joys at walking the dog, spending time with Friend #7 or pondering why the Hamster Internet is still being used in Peel Schools.
a.
replete
c.
eminent
b.
steeped
d.
abound
 

 9. 

“...the most worthless part.”  <sniff>
a.
dregs
c.
prognosticate
b.
loser
d.
eminent
 

 10. 

The eminent storm promised to heap a volume of rain not seen the Flood from biblical times!  Is the underlined word used correctly?
a.
No
b.
Yes
 

 11. 

The student felt that she, and only she were to be the _________________________ for the coveted “best Student” award of 2012.
a.
candidate
c.
aspirant
b.
steeped
d.
ultimate
 

 12. 

I feel quite __________________ as I fled the gaggle of students playing “Catch the Hamster” - especially considering the brazen bullying demonstrated by my ex-Friend #7.
a.
replete
c.
debarred
b.
shunned
d.
pithy
 

 13. 

Some would say that summer time is where we find true ________________ from the demands of life.
a.
solace
c.
solitude
b.
peace
d.
abundance
 

 14. 

It was clear that the student (unnamed for now) felt that he was destined to ___________________ despite the simple fact that it was the teacher’s job to do so!
a.
scurrilous
c.
“to vent the flotsam!”
b.
“to rule the roost”
d.
frenzy
 

 15. 

In a ______________________, Blythe upturned every single desk in the efforts to find the student’s social skills.
a.
aspirant
c.
scurrilous
b.
frenzy
d.
angst
 

 16. 

He would work himself into an alcoholic frenzy (using non-alcoholic drinks of all things!) in which he would trumpet __________________ attacks on the hamster.  Bad, bad person!
a.
frenzied
c.
scurrilous
b.
dregs
d.
rampant
 

 17. 

Far from being a ____________________ the cheating by Student #7 did not go unnoticed by Jagveer and his pet.
a.
ethics
c.
hidden
b.
concur
d.
clandestine
 

 18. 

Some argued that the ISU presentation prepared by Student #7 was truly ______________!
a.
borish
c.
inane
b.
engaging
d.
rampant.
 

 19. 

A “stock in trade” is...
a.
an item you have bought that brings disappointment; especially considering that you didn’t bother to see it first!
c.
an item that you drop after buying it and it turns into a stock.
b.
A stock you trade.
d.
the goods, tools and other requisites of a profession.
 

 20. 

The young student questioned the ________________ of the teacher after she made yet another joke about his hamster.
a.
ethics
c.
pedagogy
b.
believes
d.
motives
 

 21. 

The ___________________ was caught with his fingers in the cookie jar.
a.
vagrant
c.
student
b.
culprit
d.
villain
 

 22. 

Placed under ________________, the student watched in horror as the police officer removed the fingers from the cookie jar, one by one...
a.
inexorable
c.
duress
b.
flagrant
d.
arrest
 

 23. 

She issued letter after letter __________________ those politicians who did not proctor alertly!
a.
admonish
c.
argue
b.
chastise
d.
paltry
 

 24. 

Student #7’s _____________ campaign against the evil hamsters in Den #3 seemed to be paying off....only too well.
a.
ultimate
c.
timely
b.
inexorable
d.
flagrant
 

 25. 

“...to take down a peg” means...
a.
Literally, to take someone’s peg down.
c.
to take the conceit out of a braggart
b.
to take a point of view contrary to an octogenarian
d.
to peg.
 

 26. 

The bank teller’s _________________ error was difficult to correct.
a.
acriminous
c.
paucity
b.
egregious
d.
distraught
 



 
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