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VOCABULARY
COMPREHENSION
DECODING
GRAMMAR
WHAT DOES IT MEAN
100
gave up
What is sacrificed
100
What is this article mainly about?
What is the first Americans to reach the North Pole
100
The word impress has the same sound for s as: A. elastic. B. ensure. C. relationship. D. tension.
What is A. elastic.
100
What tense is "have imagined" in the sentence below? For weeks I have imagined winning the photography contest. A.  past B.  present C.  past perfect D.  present perfect
What is D.  present perfect
100
give my right arm
What is to want something really badly
200
a large area
What is expanse
200
What the author does to organize the article and develop the main idea
What is describes events in the order they happened.
200
The word impression has the same sound for s as: A. absence. B. defense. C. deposit. D. pressure.
What is D. pressure.
200
Which sentence has a present verb tense? A.  Kim rehearsed a scene with her mother last night. B.  Weston delivers his lines with a lot of expression. C.  By opening night, they will have practiced for a month. D.  Each student will audition for a different part in the play.
What is B.  Weston delivers his lines with a lot of expression.
200
get your act together
What is to get organized and stay on task
300
the same as
What is equivalent
300
The author calls the two-week trip to Cape Sheridan an ice-busting, gut-wrenching voyage. The connotation of this description is that the voyage was
What is an extremely difficult and distressing ordeal.
300
The word devotion has the same sound for t as: A. hatchet. B. mature. C. motion. D. splinter.
What is C. motion.
300
Which sentence has a future perfect verb tense? A.  Every year we raise several kinds of vegetables. B.  By May, we will have harvested our first beans. C.  Last week, my sister and I planted tomato seedlings. D.  Next year, we will enlarge the garden by ten feet.
What is B.  By May, we will have harvested our first beans.
300
putting your foot down
What is being strict or having authority
400
very cold
What is frigid
400
By February 1909, the entire party was prepared to begin the march to the Pole. What is the connotation of the word march in the sentence above?
What is organized advance toward a goal
400
The word graduate has the same sound for t as: A. departure. B. scientific. C. selection. D. thorough.
What is B. scientific.
400
Which sentence is written correctly with consistent verb tenses? A.  We looked at the sky and hope for a thunderstorm. B.  The farmers' crops will die if it doesn't rained soon. C.  Yesterday it sprinkled in the morning, but it stops in the afternoon. D.  We breathed a sigh of relief when the raindrops finally poured down.
What is D.  We breathed a sigh of relief when the raindrops finally poured down.
400
cough it up
What is unwillingly providing information when asked
500
concluded
What is deduced
500
What did Henson, Egingwah, and Seegloo do to ensure they had actually reached the North Pole?
What is they drove the sledges in a large rectangle around the campsite
500
The word progression has the same sound for s as: A. hesitate. B. impose. C. lesson. D. sugar.
What is D. sugar.
500
Which sentence is written correctly with consistent verb tenses? A.  He writes my favorite book, and it earned many awards. B.  Jill waited her turn in line until her favorite author will sign her book. C.  I will read a nonfiction book, and I will write a report about what I learn. D.  Every time Douglas reads his favorite book, he discovered something new.
What is C.  I will read a nonfiction book, and I will write a report about what I learn.
500
gift of the gab
What is talks a lot and with ease