Word Power
In “After skipping lunch, Maya was famished,” what does famished mean?
Very hungry
What is three-fourths of 20?
15
What punctuation marks show a speaker’s exact words in dialogue?
Quotation marks
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
In baseball or softball, how many strikes make an out?
3
Choose the most precise verb: “The runner _____ across the finish line at top speed.”
Sprinted
Evaluate: -6 + 14 - 3
5
A narrator says, “I hid the note in my backpack.” What point of view is used?
First-person point of view
On which continent is the Sahara Desert?
Africa
I have keys but no locks and a space but no room. What am I?
A keyboard
The prefix mis- means “wrongly.” What does misinterpret mean?
To understand something incorrectly
What is 2.5 × 1.2?
3
What figurative language appears in “The hallway became a river of students”?
Metaphor
Which element has the atomic number 6?
Carbon
What pocket-sized device commonly combines a phone, camera, map, music player, and internet browser?
A smartphone
If a narrator describes a neighbor as benevolent, what trait does the neighbor show?
Kindness or generosity
Solve: 3(2x - 5) = 27
x = 7
What literary term describes a situation in which the audience knows something important that a character does not?
Dramatic irony
What causes Earth’s seasons?
Earth’s tilted axis as it orbits the Sun
Logic: All Zorps are Bims, and no Bims are Tars. Can any Zorp be a Tar?
No
Use the word parts in- (“not”), destruct (“destroy”), and -ible (“able to be”) to define indestructible.
Not able to be destroyed
A line passes through (2, 5) and (6, 13). What is its slope?
2
Devon says, “I’m not nervous,” but rereads his note three times, taps his foot, and drops his pencil when his name is called. What can you infer, and what evidence supports it?
Devon is nervous or anxious; his repeated reading, foot-tapping, and dropping the pencil support the inference
In binary, the number 1010 equals what number in base ten?
10
At exactly 3:30, what is the smaller angle between the hour hand and minute hand of an analog clock?
75 degrees