Vocabulary Grade 9 — Set 1: In Context flashcards
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Since she started volunteering at the shelter, Tess has grown ______, reminding friends at every lunch that she, unlike them, actually cares about others.self-righteousCharacter & Behavior
She treats her good deeds as proof that she is morally better than her friends. Opinionated would need strong views pushed on others, not a show of goodness. -
When her two best friends argued over whose science-fair idea was better, Leila refused to take a ______ either way, saying only that both projects sounded fun.stanceFeelings & Attitudes
"Take a stance" in a disagreement means stating a position, which Leila avoids. Sentiment is a feeling, which you have rather than take. -
The airline turned Mr. Bose away at the gate because his passport had expired last month and was no longer ______ for travel.validThinking & Knowing
An expired passport is no longer officially usable. Legitimate describes something lawful or fair, not a document's expiry date. -
The shampoo commercial was all grand ______ about "a whole new you," but the bottle held the same ordinary soap as before.rhetoricSpeaking & Arguing
Impressive words meant to persuade, with little truth behind them. Jargon would be a field's special terms, and "a whole new you" is plain, showy language. -
The council approved the new bike-lane plan in March, but crews will need all summer to fully ______ it, painting one street at a time.implementActions & Effort
An approved plan now has to move from idea to reality. Impose would mean forcing a rule on people, and undertake means taking on a task, not carrying it out. -
Astronomers rate a star's brightness by its ______, and oddly, the lower the number, the brighter the star looks in the night sky.magnitudeChange & Growth
The word names the number that rates how bright a star is, the same word used for how strong an earthquake is. -
The drama club spent three hundred dollars on costumes but raised only two hundred, leaving a ______ of one hundred dollars to cover before opening night.deficitSize & Amount
More money goes out than comes in, and the gap is the answer. Shortcoming is a weak point or flaw, not a sum of money. -
The museum chose one ordinary, well-used farmhouse kitchen as a ______ example of how most families in the valley cooked and ate in the 1890s.representativeQuality & Judgment
An ordinary kitchen shows what was typical for most families. Exemplary would need "an," and its usual sense, so good others should copy it, clashes with "ordinary." -
The bakery on Elm Street is run as a ______: each of its nine workers owns an equal share and gets an equal vote on prices and hours.collectiveSociety & Power
A business where all the members are both the owners and the managers. A coalition brings separate groups together over a goal they share, often only for a while, rather than running a shop together. -
The island's ______ includes forty kinds of fern and a rare orchid, but its only native animals are birds and insects.floraNature & Time
Ferns and orchids are the island's plants. Fauna would be its animals, which the sentence lists separately.
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