Vocabulary Grade 8 — Set 1: Practice flashcards
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Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 1 words: four choices, one blank, and why the most tempting wrong answer fails.
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Before the museum trip, Mr. Alvarez reminded the class that their ______ on the bus and in the exhibits, from quiet voices to hands off the displays, would decide whether next year's class could go.
A) conduct
B) outlook
C) conscience
D) motiveA) conductCharacter & Behavior
Quiet voices and hands off the displays describe how students behave: their conduct. Conscience is tempting, but it is your inner moral compass, which no one at the museum can see; staff can only see behavior. -
Ruby practices piano for an hour every morning before school, even when her friends are outside playing; that kind of ______ is why she has improved so quickly.
A) incentive
B) intellect
C) discipline
D) blissC) disciplineThinking & Knowing
Choosing practice over play every morning takes real self-control: discipline. Intellect is tempting because she improves fast, but intellect is about thinking and reasoning, and the sentence is about steady self-control. -
Students who wanted a safer crosswalk near the school held a ______ in front of city hall, waving signs and cheering as speakers urged the council to act.
A) rally
B) tribute
C) throng
D) rantA) rallyActions & Effort
When a cause's supporters fill a public place with signs and speeches, that is a rally. Throng is tempting because there is a crowd, but a throng is the crowd itself; you can't "hold" a throng to ask the council for something. -
Mr. Ortiz reminded the class that a fair experiment changes only one ______, such as the temperature or the amount of light, and keeps every other factor the same.
A) residue
B) component
C) variable
D) tendencyC) variableChange & Growth
A factor that is changed in an experiment is a variable. Component is tempting because it, too, names one item out of a group, but components are pieces inside a larger whole, like the chain on a bike, and temperature is not a part of anything. -
The hotel room was comfortable and spotless but completely ______: beige walls, a plain bed and a sailboat print, with nothing to show which city it was in.
A) primitive
B) mediocre
C) generic
D) eccentricC) genericQuality & Judgment
A plain, ordinary room that could be in any city is generic. Mediocre is tempting, but it means about average and no better, and a comfortable, spotless room is fine; it just has nothing special about it. -
Compared with today's smartphones, the first mobile phones were ______: heavy as bricks, they could make calls but had no touch screens, cameras or apps.
A) sophisticated
B) infinite
C) primitive
D) chronologicalC) primitiveNature & Time
Phones that could only make calls, with no touch screens or apps, were bare and basic, like things from long ago: primitive. Sophisticated is tempting because it fits today's smartphones, but the blank describes the first phones.
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