Vocabulary Quiz For Grade 9
- Question of
Choose the word that best completes the sentence: My math class is usually _____, but today it is calm, quiet, and focused since we have our final exam.
- Arbitrary
- Morose
- Obstreperous
- Prim
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Choose the word that best completes the sentence: If the person next to me doesn’t stop that _____ pen clicking, I’m going to freak out!
- Auspicious
- Incessant
- Pompous
- Diligent
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Choose the word that best completes the sentence: The psychologist Sigmund Freud had a theory that humans are programmed with certain _____ desires that they are not even aware of.
- Facilitate
- Hoodwink
- Latent
- Condone
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Which word is an antonym for anarchy?
- Chaos
- Disorder
- Harmony
- Turmoil
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Which of the following does Mr. Laurie condone in class?
- Violence
- Reading
- Offensive language
- Facebook
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Choose the word that best completes the sentence: Modern politicians tend to espouse and _____ rather than educate and persuade.
- Admonish
- Efface
- Proliferate
- Trite
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Choose the word that best completes the sentence: The man had a bad reputation; he was always drunk and _____.
- Benevolent
- Predisposed
- Illegible
- Dissolute
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Choose the word that best completes the sentence: One who is on parole is best to avoid any _____ with the law.
- Altercation
- Commandeer
- Expulsion
- Pauper
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Choose the word that best completes the statement: When I heard I was elected class president, I was motionless as a _____ swamp.
- Pompous
- Arbitrary
- Credible
- Stagnant
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Choose the word that best completes the sentence: A major topic debate in modern American culture is whether firearms are protective or _____.
- Morose
- Perilous
- Credible
- Sprightly
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Choose the word that best completes the sentence: “Give me liberty or give me death!” was Patrick Henry’s way of saying that he would no longer live in _____ to the English monarchy.
- Lucid
- Rebut
- Servitude
- Incinerate
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Which word is an antonym for superfluous?
- Kindafluous
- Excessive
- Useless
- Necessary
- Question of
Choose the word that best completes the sentence: The TV sitcom star had a trim figure, flowing hair, and a _____ smile.
- Comely
- Irate
- Terse
- Brigand
- Question of
Which is the definition for deadlock?
- The act of locking someone up until they die
- A state in which progress is impossible
- A Scottish lake that has dried up
- An inescapable prison
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Which is a synonym for abscond?
- Remain
- Stay put
- Arrive
- Leave town
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to warn or reprimand firmly
- Brigand
- Deadlock
- Admonish
- Dilemma
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the act of breaking an agreement or the law; a violation
- Cumbersome
- Breach
- Admonish
- Diffuse
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a bandit, robber, or outlaw
- Debris
- Breach
- Commandeer
- Brigand
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wary, prudent, guarded; unwilling to take risks
- Brigand
- Circumspect
- Dilemma
- Cumbersome
- Question of
to officially take possession or control
- Commandeer
- Diffuse
- Cumbersome
- Admonish
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large or heavy and difficult to carry or handle
- Brigand
- Debris
- Cumbersome
- Circumspect
- Circumspect
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a standstill resulting from two equal, opposing forces
- Diffuse
- Deadlock
- Commandeer
- Breach
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scattered fragments, wreckage
- Dilemma
- Admonish
- Brigand
- Debris
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to spread or scatter freely or widely
- Debris
- Diffuse
- Deadlock
- Dilemma
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a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
- Dilemma
- Circumspect
- Deadlock
- Admonish
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a person who takes part in a crime
- Brazen
- Paramount
- Accomplice
- Rebut
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to destroy completely
- Annihilate
- Slapdash
- Militant
- Exodus
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unreasonable; based on one’s wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness
- Opaque
- Latent
- Prattle
- Arbitrary
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Shameless
- Arbitrary
- Brazen
- Slapdash
- Incorrigible
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a substance that causes a chemical reaction; a person or thing that starts an event
- Brazen
- Catalyst
- Slapdash
- Militant