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4. Ask the teacher to come cross off two answers.

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7.  A. work together A. work together  C. eat C. eat  B. score B. score  D. run D. run Everyone on the team needs to cooperate in order to play a good game. What does cooperate mean?

8. Back to Board  A. Work Together

9.  A. hid A. hid  C. ate C. ate  B. cooked B. cooked  D. roared D. roared The hungry bear devoured all the berries. What does devoured mean?

10. Back to Board C. ate

11.  A. muted A. muted  C. colored C. colored  B. polished B. polished  D. clouded D. clouded The servant burnished the silver vase, rubbing hard to bring back the shine. What does burnished mean?

12. Back to Board B. polished

13.  A. unreal A. unreal  C. correct C. correct  B. realistic B. realistic  D. funny D. funny The unsubstantial story was as if she were retelling a dream. What does unsubstantial mean?

14. Back to Board A. unreal

15.  A. king A. king  C. sister C. sister  B. lucky B. lucky  D. receiver D. receiver I was the recipient of a beautiful bouquet of roses. What does recipient mean?

16. Back to Board D. Recipient

17.  A. terrible A. terrible  C. unoriginal C. unoriginal  B. original B. original  D. smelly D. smelly Most people thought that Jay’s newspaper column was trite, but I thought it was really original.

18. Back to Board C. Unoriginal

19.  A. swam A. swam  C. ran C. ran  B. walked tiredly B. walked tiredly  D. jumped D. jumped Matt trudged through the mud and rain to get home from school.

20. Back to Board B. Walked tiredly

21.  A. shoved A. shoved  C. teased C. teased  B. flipped B. flipped  D. colored D. colored The boy taunted the puppy by holding the treat in front of his nose. What does taunted mean?

22. Back to Board C. teased

23.  A. chair A. chair  D. bed-like furniture D. bed-like furniture Instead of climbing into bed, she decided to take a nap on the chaise. What does chaise mean?  C. sleeping bag C. sleeping bag  B. floor B. floor

24. Back to Board D. bed-like furniture

25. The hypothetical version of the story was far from what really occurred. In this sentence, the word hypothetical means  A. funny A. funny  C. actual C. actual  D. real D. real  B. made up / uncertain B. made up / uncertain

26. Back to Board B. Made up / uncertain

27.  A. bitter A. bitter The lemon had an acrid taste, unlike the chocolate chip cookie that I had for lunch. In this sentence, the word acrid means  C. sweet C. sweet  B. delicious B. delicious  D. toxic D. toxic

28. Back to Board A. bitter

29.  B. weakening B. weakening Debilitating illnesses include Lou Gehrig's disease, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis. In this sentence, the word debilitating means  A. happy A. happy  C. strengthening C. strengthening  D. energizing D. energizing

30. Back to Board B. Weakening

31.  C. not tolerable C. not tolerable Scott could not be quiet in class. His behavior was obnoxious, not tolerable.  A. kind A. kind  B. tolerable B. tolerable  D. nice D. nice

32. Back to Board C. Not tolerable

33.  D. bother D. bother Amanda was a nuisance, a pest, in class.  A. smart A. smart  C. student C. student  B. nurse B. nurse

34. Back to Board D. bother

35.  A. unbelievable A. unbelievable It is implausible that there is life on Venus. The idea that there might be life on Mars is also unlikely.  B. not able to clap B. not able to clap  D. true D. true  C. not able to pause C. not able to pause

36. A. unbelievable

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