Vocabulary Grade 9 — Set 3: Practice flashcards
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Thirty-four sentence-completion questions on the Set 3 words: four choices, one blank, context clues that settle it, and why the tempting wrong answer fails.
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When the whole class blamed Nico for the broken microscope, Ada gave him quiet but ______ support, sitting with him at lunch all week and telling anyone who asked that he could not have done it.
A) lenient
B) steadfast
C) docile
D) flamboyantB) steadfastCharacter & Behavior
Standing by Nico all week and refusing to doubt him while the whole class blames him is support that is firm and loyal: steadfast. Lenient is tempting because Ada does not hold the blame against him, but lenient means going easier on people than they would expect, especially when punishing or judging them, and Ada is not going easy on something he did: she tells anyone who asks that he could not have done it. -
Splattered with forty years of cake batter, Great-Grandma Lupe's recipe card was so smudged that Jamal had to squint under the kitchen lamp to ______ the blurry writing on the line for sugar.
A) recount
B) deduce
C) disprove
D) decipherD) decipherThinking & Knowing
Making out writing too smudged to read easily, here the line for sugar, is to decipher it. Deduce is tempting because Jamal is working something out, but to deduce is to put facts or clues together and reason out what must be true, and Jamal is reading the smudged writing itself, squinting at every mark. -
Rather than admit he had forgotten to water his sunflower seedlings, Brett tried to ______ data for his biology report, filling a notebook with growth measurements he had never actually taken.
A) inflate
B) deduce
C) disprove
D) fabricateD) fabricateSpeaking & Arguing
Making up measurements he never took and passing them off as real is to fabricate data. Inflate is tempting because Brett is dressing up his report, but to inflate is to exaggerate how big or important something is, and Brett had no real measurements to make bigger. -
Nobody in the valley had woven baskets from river reeds for nearly a century, until Ms. Ortega found an old handbook on the craft and set out to ______ it, teaching every step exactly as the handbook described.
A) resurrect
B) suspend
C) terminate
D) revampA) resurrectChange & Growth
Bringing back a craft that had died out nearly a century before is to resurrect it. Revamp is tempting because the craft is getting a fresh start, but to revamp is to rework something, improving it or bringing it up to date, and Ms. Ortega changes nothing about the craft, teaching every step exactly as the old handbook describes. -
The engraver fit the whole poem onto the back of a silver locket in letters so ______ that its twelve lines fill a space the size of a postage stamp.
A) voluminous
B) cavernous
C) paltry
D) minusculeD) minusculeSize & Amount
Letters so tiny that a twelve-line poem fits in a space the size of a postage stamp are minuscule. Paltry is tempting because it also describes something small, but paltry means so small that it is almost worthless, and the sentence is about the letters' size, not their worth. -
Cutting down the old shade trees to widen Harbor Road seemed harmless in January, but it had ______ no one expected: by July, the treeless road was the hottest street in town.
A) anecdotes
B) catastrophes
C) upturns
D) repercussionsD) repercussionsNature & Time
Bad effects that showed up months later because of one decision are repercussions. Catastrophes is tempting because the results are harmful, but a catastrophe is a disaster that strikes suddenly and does enormous harm, and the hottest street in town is an unwelcome effect, not a disaster.
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