What is the correct spelling?
Is your Aunt Barbara a good ________?
A. lisiner
B. listener
C. listenor
D. listaner
B. listener
100
What is the meaning?
The king cobra will attack without being (provoked).
A. rescued
B. give a reason
C. affected
D. poisoned
B. give a reason
100
What is comparing two objects using like or as?
Her eyes are as blue as the ocean.
simile
100
What is pro-?
prowar
in favor of
100
What is the person a story is about called?
main character
200
What is the correct spelling?
He has to take that __________ with food, or he will get a stomachache.
A. medacine
B. medisin
C. medicine
D. medicin
C. medicine
200
What is the meaning?
The fire (devastated) the wooden buildings of the city.
A. built
B. designed
C. destroyed
D. sold
C. destroyed
200
What is an exaggeration of the truth?
I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.
hyperbole
200
What is anti-?
antisocial
against
200
What is called when two people are talking?
conversation
300
What is the correct spelling?
Our principal thinks that sharing lockers may be ________ if our school enrollment keeps growing.
A. necessary
B. nesesary
C. necesarry
D. necesary
What is the correct spelling?
A. necessary
300
What is the meaning?
More and more facts (reinforce) the idea that the moon was probably created by a tremendous crash.
A. plan
B. send
C. trim
D. support
What is the meaning?
D. support
300
What is a sound word called?
Boom Crash Sizzle
onomatopoeia
300
What is mis-?
misbehave
do wrong
300
What is the bad guy in a book or movie called?
villain
400
What is the correct spelling?
Hurricanes rarely __________ in Blake's home state.
A. okurr
B. ocure
C. occurr
D. occur
C. occurr
400
What is the meaning?
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, he was (ingenious).
A. unhappily married
B. cloth maker
C. born in the south
D. very clever
D. very clever
400
What is the repetition of like beginning sounds?
Silly Sally likes sea shells.
alliteration
400
What is mal-?
malfunction
bad or wrong
400
What is it called when an author tells about things that have happened in a characters past?
flashback
500
What is the correct spelling?
___________ I misunderstood the directions.
A. Unfortunately
B. Unfortanatly
C. Unfortinately
D. Unfortinataly
A. Unfortunately
500
What is the meaning?
Charlie needed an (excessive) amount of money to build his house.
A. a few
B. harmful
C. born in the south
D. a lot of
D. a lot of
500
What is comparing two objects without using like or as?
My pillow is a fluffy cloud of cotton.
metaphor
500
What is tri-?
tricycle
three
500
What is it called when you make a guess about what will happen in a movie or book?