400 Must Have
The rumors of the new boy ________ quickly throughout the school.
What is circulated?
Someone who has ________ for something usually spends a lot of time doing it.
What is passion?
The verb we use with bowling. (e.g.: Lets ____ bowling)
What is go?
Laura Dekker was excellent at this.
What is sailing?
Name one cause of the urban heat island.
What is wind, high-rise buildings, albedo, pollution, etc.?
The ________ that caused the war was a simple misunderstanding.
What is trigger?
Another way to say: able to convince others to join your cause
What is influential?
The suffix -ous is used to form this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
J.J. Abrams uses his mystery box as a metaphor, comparing it to this.
What is a movie theater?
The word "triggered" is closest in meaning to:
A. removed
B. followed
C. increased
D. caused
What is D?
What is to transmit or make known/transport from one place to another?
A person who is ________ to start a project is excited by the work.
What is enthusiastic?
These words can help us recognize sequences of events.
What is first, second, then, next, etc.?
TIMER RACE: One reason given by our passage "Are Human Beings Getting Smarter?" that humans are scoring lower on IQ tests is this.
What is because of electronics?
The word "periodically" is closest in meaning to:
A. continuously
B. quickly
C. regularly
D. carefully
What is C?
On coastlines, we have built ________ walls to help keep water out and the areas behind them dry.
What is retaining?
When you haven't signed into a website for quite some time we must do this to login to our account.
What is verify (our identity)?
BONUS: We use italics for these three different reasons.
What is to set apart a word from others, to emphasize or stress a word, to identify a title?
This is one problem Yani Tseng faced when she first started playing in international tournaments.
What is not being able to speak English?
According to our reading "Early Cinema", when comparing peepshows to projection shows, this was the major difference between the two kinds of shows.
What is smaller in size?
Another way to say: in a way that can work
What is feasibly?
This sentence: "He is as stubborn as a mule." Is an example of a metaphor. TRUE OR FALSE?
What is false?
What is word web/map/etc.?
Yani Tseng won this many tournaments in the LPGA by the time she reached the age of 22.
What is five?
At the same time, city heat warms the surface air, making "it" more unstable, which enhances risings air motions, which, in turn, aids in forming clouds and thunderstorms. This process helps explain why both tend to be more frequent over cities.
"It" in the quotations refers to this.
What is surface air?