TNReady English I and II language and vocabulary overview quiz quiz

Choose the first meaning you think of

Guess from a definition you half-remember

Use context clues in the sentence, then confirm by substitution

Pick the longest answer choice

Angry, with no clue

Shy, because the host is silent

Tired, from the word 'evening'

Talkative, from the contrast with 'fell silent' signaled by 'normally'

Let the surrounding words select the sense ('swimmers' and 'downstream' point to a flow of water)

Always use the most common meaning

Pick the meaning that sounds most advanced

Use the first dictionary entry

A suffix changes meaning, a prefix changes spelling

Both only change pronunciation

They do the same thing

A prefix (front) changes meaning; a suffix (end) often changes meaning and part of speech

Easily broken

Ill-tempered

Wishing others well, kindly

Very fast

Denotation is the literal dictionary meaning; connotation is the feeling a word carries

Connotation is the spelling; denotation is the sound

Denotation only applies to verbs

They are identical

A negative view: 'mob' connotes disorder and threat, revealing a critical attitude

Nothing; the words are the same

That the author approves of the crowd

That the crowd is small

No change

The box of old photographs are left in the attic

The box of old photographs was left in the attic

The boxes of old photographs was left

She was nervous, Mia and Sara

When Mia met Sara, she was nervous

When they met, she was nervous

Mia was nervous when she met Sara

A missing comma; add one

Two complete sentences joined by only a comma; fix with a period, a semicolon, or a comma plus a coordinating conjunction

A sentence that is too long; delete words

A spelling error; correct the spelling

The studen'ts books were on the desk

The student's books were on the desk

The students books were on the desk

The students' book's were on the desk

It is not on the test

It is tested twice: in the reading and language items, and again in the essay's Conventions and Clarity dimension

It is only one question

It only matters for English II