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Vocabulary Unit 3 Quiz
Abridge
Condone
Fabricate
Pauper
Surmount
Adherent
Dissent
Gluttony
Pilfer
Terminate
Altercation
Eminent
Irate
Rift
Trite
Cherubic
Exorcise
Marauder
Semblance
Usurp
Synonyms: (3 points each)
Choose the word from this unit that is the same or most nearly the same in meaning as the boldface word.
The brother and sister often followed
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To the rules their parents established. One day,
However, their parents went one rule too far.
After the kids had a physical disagreement over the
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French Toast, their parents established that no more
Syrupy, sweet breakfasts were allowed. The once-angelic
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Children quickly turned into furious scavengers akin to
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Thieving raccoons (or some other woodland creature),
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and they commandeered the kitchen and fortified
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themselves inside for days.
Antonyms: (3 points each)
Choose the word from this unit that is most nearly the opposite in meaning to the boldface word.
He expressed agreement with her plan to
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Return the prized artifacts from the museum.
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He found the plan imaginative in its construction,
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Especially because it involved playing an unknown
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politician character for the con.
Write a Sentence: (5 points each)
On a separate sheet of paper, write a simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentence. Use at
least one vocabulary word NOT USED IN THE QUESTIONS ABOVE in each of the sentences. Underline
the INDEPENDENT CLAUSE(s) in each sentence.
Illustrations (5 points each)
Draw visual representations of four words NOT USED IN ANY OF THE PREVIOUS SECTIONS from the
vocabulary list. These images can be single images or short sequences of images. NO WORDS ALLOWED. (If
there are word bubbles, fill them with symbols or nonsense).
Word: ____________________
Word: _____________________
Word: ___________________
Word: _____________________
Sentence Repair (30 points total)
Repair and rewrite the following sentences. You can add words, remove words, or move things around.
1) The debris from the explosion the marauder’s caused. Resulted in several unintended injuries. The
marauder’s muddled the whole plan from the beginning because they didn’t take into account the
debris from the explosion they caused to breach the fortified bank vault and launched erratically into
the surrounding crowds.
2) He tantalized the prisoner. With a morsel of food. The prisoner was treated poorly by the guard.
Because he was an alien in the country. Because the guard thought the laws didn’t apply to aliens.