Match the vocabulary word with the definition
1. Commanding attention
2. Justification
3. Middle class conventional
4. Ominous full of meaning
5. Difficult to manage
1. Portentous
2. Recalcitrant
3. Strident
4. Bourgeois
5. Expostulation
To match the vocabulary words with their definitions, you can follow these steps:
1. Read through the definitions and determine the key words or concepts.
- Commanding attention
- Justification
- Middle class conventional
- Ominous full of meaning
- Difficult to manage
2. Look at the vocabulary words and evaluate their meanings.
- Portentous: ominous, full of meaning
- Recalcitrant: difficult to manage
- Strident: commanding attention
- Bourgeois: middle class conventional
- Expostulation: justification
3. Match the vocabulary words with their corresponding definitions.
- 1. Strident: commanding attention
- 2. Expostulation: justification
- 3. Bourgeois: middle class conventional
- 4. Portentous: ominous, full of meaning
- 5. Recalcitrant: difficult to manage
Therefore, the matching of the vocabulary words with their definitions is as follows:
1. Strident
2. Expostulation
3. Bourgeois
4. Portentous
5. Recalcitrant
1. Portentous
2. Expostulation
3. Strident
4. Bourgeois
5. Recalcitrant
Multiple Choice
F. Scott Fitzgerald dropped out of college to
(1 point)
Responses
begin writing.
begin writing.
get married.
get married.
join the army.
join the army.
work for his father.
begin writing.
n medias res refers to
(1 point)
Responses
opening a story in the middle of the action.
opening a story in the middle of the action.
stopping a story in the middle of the action.
stopping a story in the middle of the action.
writing a story backwards.
writing a story backwards.
writing a story about Ancient Rome.
opening a story in the middle of the action.
Which vocabulary word best describes the letter in the below sentences?
Jennifer opened the door to a man dressed all in black. In a deep voice he said, “News from your father,” and handed her a black envelope with a red seal. When Jennifer looked up to ask about the letter, he was gone.
The vocabulary word that best describes the letter in the given sentences is "ominous."
Which vocabulary word best describes the letter in the below sentences?
Jennifer opened the door to a man dressed all in black. In a deep voice he said, “News from your father,” and handed her a black envelope with a red seal. When Jennifer looked up to ask about the letter, he was gone.
(1 point)
Responses
portentous
portentous
provocative
provocative
recalcitrant
recalcitrant
strident