Vocabuary
Poetry
Quote ID's I
Quote ID's II
Vocabulary II
100
Miss Caroline __________________________________ a loud shriek upon seeing a louse in the Ewell boy’s hair.
emitted
100
"Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky" These are the first two lines of which poem we studied?
Virtue
100
Identify the Speaker. “We see that without Torah there is only half a life. We see that without Torah we are dust. We see that without Torah we are abominations...When we study Torah, then the Master of the Universe listens. Then He hears our words. Then He will fulfill our wishes.”
Reb Saunders
100
Identify the text. "Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
A Midsummer Night's Dream
100
“Don’t you think those bracelets are a bit _____________________________?” she asked. “After all, you already have five on each wrist.”
superfluous
200
John Toby reached the ______________________________ of his athletic career when he won the Heisman Trophy.
zenith
200
Identify the poem from the following excerpt: "Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell"
Death, be not Proud
200
Identify the Speaker: “Look at that. Look at all those people. They look like ants. Sometimes I get the feeling that’s all we are--ants. Do you ever feel that way?”
Danny Saunders
200
Identify the text. "Somehow everything had changed. I had spent five days in a hospital and the world around seemed sharpened now and pulsing with life."
The Chosen
200
"The governor attempted to ___________________________________ the growing mob with loaves of bread and promises of future peace."
mollify
300
Sherlock Holmes regards as ____________________________ many ideas that are complex to the common man.
Rudimentary
300
Identify the poem from the following excerpt: "And delves the parallels in beauty's brow"
Sonnet 60
300
Identify the Speaker: “He’s not a hunter. He’d never have got us meat. He isn’t a prefect and we don’t know anything about him. He just gives orders and expects people to obey him for nothing. All this talk--”
Jack
300
Identify the text. "A foundling to start with, he would flourish later on..."
Beowulf
300
"Against my better judgment, I allowed my friends to _______________________________ me into staying up till 2am the night before my exam."
cajole
400
I will not purchase the used vehicle until my mechanic has had time to ___________________________ it under a microscope.
scrutinize
400
Fill in the blank. "Which waves in every ________________ tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face"
raven
400
Identify the Speaker: “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.”
Atticus Finch
400
Identify the text. "Fall, and his children trotted to and fro around the corner, the day’s woes and triumphs on their faces. They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive. Winter, and his children shivered at the front gate, silhouetted against a blazing house."
To Kill a Mockingbird
400
"The rolling pastures and mooing cows provided the most _______________________________ setting for our escape from the city."
Idyllic
500
Though flawed in countless ways, the essays most ____________________________ problem was a complete lack of punctuation.
salient
500
Fill in the blank. "____________________ on the rarities of nature's truth"
feeds
500
Identify the Speaker: “No, it is not combat I crave, for come to that, on this bench only beardless boys are sitting."
The Green Knight
500
Identify the text. "And through the wiles of a woman be wooed into sorrow, For so was Adam by one, when the world began, And Solomon by many more, and Samson the mighty..."
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
500
"The ________________________________ little boy refused to utter even a murmur during the first day of school."
taciturn
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