Vocabulary Grade 8 — Set 3: Practice flashcards
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Thirty-four sentence-completion questions on the Set 3 words: four choices, one blank, and why the most tempting wrong answer fails.
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In Mei's favorite novel, a ______ servant girl smiles as she scrubs the floors, speaks in a near whisper and obeys every order of the cruel queen without ever arguing back, until the final chapter, when she at last refuses.
A) rambunctious
B) gullible
C) glum
D) meekD) meekCharacter & Behavior
A near whisper and obeying every order without arguing describe someone gentle and quiet who goes along with others: meek, which is why her refusal at the end matters. Glum is tempting because she is so quiet, but glum means quiet, low-spirited and gloomy, and this girl smiles as she works. -
As a hawk swooped low over the farmyard, the ______ hens flapped, squawked and crashed into one another in their rush to squeeze through the coop's tiny door.
A) serene
B) frantic
C) boisterous
D) sluggishB) franticFeelings & Attitudes
Hens flapping and crashing into one another as they rush to escape a hawk are wild with fear and hurry: frantic. Boisterous is tempting because the hens are loud, but boisterous means loud and rowdy in high spirits, and these hens are fleeing danger, not having fun. -
Every morning at five, our cat ______ us until someone gets up to fill her bowl, meowing at the bedroom door and then pawing at our faces.
A) nags
B) ridicules
C) confronts
D) tauntsA) nagsSpeaking & Arguing
Meowing and pawing again and again until someone feeds her is to keep bothering them: she nags us. Taunts is tempting because she is a pest, but to taunt is to say mean things to upset or anger someone, and the cat only wants breakfast. -
For four weeks before the district step competition, our team ______ its routine in the empty gym, stomping and clapping through it again and again so that no one would miss a beat in front of the judges.
A) rehearsed
B) recited
C) visualized
D) plagiarizedA) rehearsedActions & Effort
Practicing a routine again and again for weeks before performing it for judges is to rehearse it. Visualized is tempting because the team prepares ahead of time, but to visualize is to imagine seeing something, and these dancers are stomping and clapping through the real thing. -
Our apartment's ______ kitchen is so small that two people can't open the fridge and the oven at the same time without bumping elbows.
A) bountiful
B) cramped
C) insignificant
D) monumentalB) crampedSize & Amount
A kitchen where two people bump elbows just opening the fridge and the oven at the same time is an uncomfortable squeeze, with barely room to turn around: cramped. Insignificant is tempting because the kitchen is small, but insignificant means so small or so minor that it makes no difference, and its size matters enough to make two people bump elbows. -
Over thousands of years, a mountain stream carved out the ______ behind the old mill: steep rock walls now rise forty feet on both sides of the water, with room at the bottom for a row of birch trees.
A) ravine
B) expanse
C) crevice
D) torrentA) ravineNature & Time
A narrow valley that moving water has cut between tall, steep walls is a ravine. Crevice is tempting because it is also an opening in rock, but a crevice is a thin crack, and this one has room for a stream and a row of birch trees.
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