Vocabulary Test 3

Question 1

glutton

Answer 1

someone who eats and drinks greedily

Question 2

implore

Answer 2

to beg urgently

Question 3

harmonious

Answer 3

being in agreement ; peaceful

Question 4

deplete

Answer 4

to use up

Question 5

rendezvous

Answer 5

a place for a meeting; to meet at a previously arranged time and place

Question 6

ponder

Answer 6

to think about something very carefully

Question 7

noxious

Answer 7

harmful to the health of living beings

Question 8

quagmire

Answer 8

soft, wet, soggy ground ; a difficult situation, a predicament

Question 9

arced

Answer 9

a curve or curved trajectory

Question 10

fossilized

Answer 10

preserved, having become a fossil (petrified as mold or form in rock)

Question 11

metallic

Answer 11

relating to or resembling metal or metals. A paint, fiber, fabric, or color with a metallic sheen.

Question 12

engraved

Answer 12

cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object.

Question 13

excavated

Answer 13

to make a hole or channel by digging. (excavated- made a hole by digging)

Question 14

paranoid

Answer 14

unreasonably anxious, suspicious, or scared

Question 15

hook

Answer 15

an opening statement (which is usually the first sentence) in an essay that attempts to grab the reader’s attention so that they want to read on. This can be a questions, interesting fact, quote, surprising statement, or anecdote.

*There are many different ways to grab your reader’s attention, or hook them into continuing to read.

Question 16

indent

Answer 16

to start a line of text with a blank space between it and the margin.

Question 17

topic sentence

Answer 17

a sentence that summarizes the main idea of a paragraph and is usually the first sentence in a paragraph

Question 18

cite

Answer 18

to quote a passage, book, or author as evidence of an argument or statement in writing.

Question 19

source

Answer 19

a text from which information or ideas are derived.

Question 20

research

Answer 20

the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.

Question 21

analyze

Answer 21

to look for patterns

Question 22

cause

Answer 22

a description of WHY something happened

Question 23

effect

Answer 23

a description of WHAT happened

Question 24

energy

Answer 24

another word for power

Question 25

matter

Answer 25

something that has mass and takes up space

Question 26

quantity

Answer 26

an exact or measured amount

Question 27

scale

Answer 27

the concept that things are similar no matter if scientists change their size

Question 28

proportion

Answer 28

the concept that the size of every part of something matches all of its other parts

Question 29

model

Answer 29

a representation of an object or idea

Question 30

system

Answer 30

a group of organs that work together; generally a set of connected things or parts

Question 31

system model

Answer 31

a model of a system

Question 32

citizen

Answer 32

an official member of a country, state, or community

Question 33

jury

Answer 33

a group of 6-12 peers that are chosen to help decide the verdict in a court case.

Question 34

factor

Answer 34

The digits being multiplied in a multiplication problem

Question 35

product

Answer 35

The answer to a multiplication equation

Question 36

Property of Zero

Answer 36

Anything multiplied by 0 is 0. ; 0x8=0 ; 0x4=0

Question 37

Commutative Property

Answer 37

The order of digits in a multiplications problem does not matter.
6x3 =18 ; 3x6=18

Question 38

Identity Property

Answer 38

Anything multiplied by 1 is itself. 1x4 =4 1x9=9

Question 39

pattern

Answer 39

a phenomenon that repeats

Question 40

verdict

Answer 40

outcome of a jury trial that the jurors deliberate and agree to unanimously