Vocabulary
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Decoding
Prepositions!
Hodge Podge
100
The answer is "richly decorated."
What is the meaning of opulent in the following sentence? The queen wanted her castle to be large and opulent.
100
The answer is "Pompeii was lost for centuries but was found again through excavations."
What is the story "Bodies From the Ash" mainly about?
100
The answer is "dis - ap - pear"
How do you correctly divide the word disappear into syllables?
100
The anwer is "during."
What is the preposition in the following sentence? The skillful dog trainer made the dog beg during the performance.
100
The answer is "Word War II"
What is the big world event that was occurring when Mount Vesuvius last erupted in 1944?
200
The answer is "small or not much."
What is the meaning of the word meager in the following sentence? After all of the lunches had been served, there was only a meager amount of pizza left.
200
The answer is "a cloud of ash filled the air and blocked the sun."
What is the reason it was difficult for people to see after the first eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
200
The answer is "in - ter - con - nects"
How is the word interconnects correctly broken into syllables?
200
The answer is "stand."
What is the word modified by the prepositional phrase "on a ladder" in the sentence below? Mr. Killian had to stand on a ladder to get the spit ball off the ceiling.
200
The answer is "pumice."
What is the name of the volcanic rock that exploded from Mount Vesuvius and helped to bury Pompeii?
300
The answer is "to be appointed again."
What is the meaning of reappointed in the following sentence? Mr. Mason did such a good job as school board president, he was reappointed to the position.
300
The answer is "to help readers understand what is might have been like to experience the eruption."
What is the reason the author of the story devotes so much of the article to describing the time of the explosion?
300
The answer is "ex - ter - mi - nate"
How is the word exterminate correctly broken into syllables?
300
The answer is "wood"
What is the word modified by the prepositional phrase "with an ax?" During the long summer, John destroyed all kinds of wood with an ax.
300
The answer is "6"
How many storm surges were there to the explosion of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii?
400
The answer is "to save."
What is the meaning of the word salvage in the sentence below? After his car accident, Tom tried to salvage the unbroken parts of his car to sell for money for repairs.
400
The answer is "that of a detached observer watching from afar."
What is the tone the author uses when he reconstructs the events of the time Vesuvius erupted?
400
The answer is "in - ter -twine"
How is the word intertwine correctly broken into syllables?
400
The answer is "from his championship game."
What is the prepositional phrase used as an adjective in the sentence below? With his friends' help, Alan searched in his room and around the house but couldn't find the baseball from his championship game.
400
The answer is James Deem.
What is the name of the author of "Bodies from the Ash?"
500
The answer is "childish."
What is the meaning of immature in the sentence below? Sometimes children act in an immature way once a younger brother or sister is born.
500
The answer is "nothing was found but structures. All the riches were gone."
What shows that early excavators only cared about riches and not preserving history?
500
The answer is "intermission."
What is the term for the short time during a play or show when the cast takes a break and viewers can get up and stretch their legs or get a snack?
500
The answer is "at the museum" and "adverb."
What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence? Is it used as an adverb or adjective? We arrived at the museum early.
500
The answer is "79 C.E."
What is the year that Mount Vesuvius had it's legendary explosion that buried Pompeii?
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