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Ninth Grade (Grade 9) Defining Words Questions

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Grade 9 Defining Words
weather
  1. the roads and highways
  2. the grass and the trees
  3. the conditions of the atmosphere
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Grade 9 Defining Words
Grade 9 Defining Words
Difficult to catch or to hold; hard to explain or understand.
  1. Tradegy
  2. Unexplainable
  3. Elusive
  4. Contemporary
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Analogy
  1. a comparison of 2 things that are similar in more than one way
  2. an expression that combines contradictory words
  3. very informal words
  4. a short, humorous story used to illustrate a point
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To give money, effort, or items for a cause
  1. Calculate
  2. Dread
  3. Contribute
  4. Routine
Grade 9 Defining Words
Uninhabited
  1. ignorant
  2. deserted
  3. populated
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Circumstance
  1. situation/condition
  2. around the world
  3. a round shape
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What is the definition of aptitude?
  1. ability; skill; talent
  2. clothing; garments; clothes; garb
  3. ordered merchandise that is not currently in stock but will be supplied in the future
  4. drink; refreshment
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A connoisseur is:
  1. expert; authority (usually refers to a wine or food expert)
  2. habitual or chronic relapse of criminal or antisocial offenses
  3. something used in a given activity; piece of equipment
  4. stockpile; store; heap; hiding place for goods
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Expunge
  1. Specialist
  2. excise
  3. inactive
  4. persecute
  5. cadre
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Cerebral
  1. stern
  2. impractical
  3. melodramatic
  4. brainy
  5. refrain
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What is the definition of concord?
  1. harmony; peace; agreement
  2. traveler who moves from one region or country to another
  3. a socially awkward or tactless act; solecism; slip; gaucherie
  4. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines; buttery
Grade 9 Defining Words
Satire
  1. (v.) to challenge or counter something/one
  2. (n.) the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices
  3. (n.) comparison of two unlike things specifically using the words “like” or “as”
  4. (v.) publicly supporting something/one
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Austere
  1. dillly dally
  2. specialist
  3. elude
  4. destroy
  5. Stern
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Which of the following best defines preliminaries?
  1. minor events
  2. rare events
  3. events occurring before the main event
  4. events occurring after the main event
Grade 9 Defining Words
Vocabulary word meaning deferential respect:
  1. obeisance
  2. arabesque
  3. deferred
  4. pecuniary
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famous
  1. jealous
  2. annoyed
  3. well known
Grade 9 Defining Words
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