This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Academic Writing > Academic Vocabulary – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Academic Vocabulary Quiz 20 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a context clue? A) The definition of a word. B) Sentences around a difficult word that helps you understand the meaning. C) Clues that help you infer. D) Sentences with the main idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sentences around a difficult word that helps you understand the meaning. 2. In the sentence "Despite the arduous journey, the climbers reached the summit, " what does "arduous" mean? A) Quick. B) Dangerous. C) Easy. D) Difficult. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Difficult. 3. Tell the facts or details A) Analyze. B) Describe. C) Persuade. D) Support. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Describe. 4. People who watch, read or listen to something or someone A) Analogy. B) Academic. C) Audience. D) Nonfiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audience. 5. What are the rhyming patterns in poetry? A) Lines. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Stanzas. D) Poets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme. 6. What means the same as TRANSLATE? A) Remove. B) Convert. C) Keep. D) Confuse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convert. 7. Building up a speaker's credibility on a message in order to convince the audience they should be trusted is called the ..... A) Appeal to ethos. B) Appeal to logos. C) Appeal to authority. D) Appeal to pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to ethos. 8. A(n) ..... is a result of something that happens. A) Setting. B) Effect. C) Plot. D) Cause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Effect. 9. It is the will to achieve a difficult task. A) Determination. B) Independence. C) Confidence. D) Specialized. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Determination. 10. Which of the following means the same as UNDERGO? A) Oppose. B) Experience. C) Refuse. D) Reject. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Experience. 11. What does it mean to CONCLUDE something? A) To come to a decision based on information presented. B) To break down into parts and examine closely. C) To point out facts or details about sometihng. D) To make something easier to understand by giving more details. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To come to a decision based on information presented. 12. Her sickness is not ..... the doctors can cure her easily. A) Significant. B) Severe. C) Exposed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Severe. 13. My mother enjoys watching thought ..... documentaries. * A) Provoking. B) Ingenious. C) Controversy. D) Striking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Provoking. 14. The media leaves out one side of the story, or one aspect of the story A) Bias. B) Bias by placement. C) Bias through omission. D) Bias by selection of sources. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bias through omission. 15. To use your background knowledge and clues in the text or picture to figure out what is happening A) Elaborate. B) Summarize. C) Infer. D) Describe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Infer. 16. A television is a machine that uses signals sent from far away to make pictures and sound people can watch. The root tele means far away. What does the root vis mean? A) Own or self. B) See or look at. C) Rock or earth. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) See or look at. 17. GENERAL SPACE is a ..... that means ..... A) Noun. The area within a boundary in which a person can move. B) Adjective. Describes the amount of area used or needed. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. The area within a boundary in which a person can move. 18. What is a folktale? A) A story with animals as characters conveying a moral. B) A story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth. C) A story involving supernatural beings or events. D) A story that may sound true but features lots of exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth. 19. This definition applies to which term?These are descriptive words used to add emphasis and to create an emotional response. A) Evidence. B) Exaggeration. C) Adjectives. D) Loaded Words. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjectives. 20. Support hold or bear; to keep going A) Comprise. B) Amend. C) Sustain. D) Fluctuate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sustain. 21. An idea that appears many times in a text that the author wants to share A) Definition. B) Annotate. C) Evidence. D) Central idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Central idea. 22. What is the term for the central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work? A) Characterization. B) Theme. C) Plot. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 23. Which word means to list the steps in order? A) Trace. B) Explain. C) Infer. D) Justify. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trace. 24. Any information collected from an original source that is used to support a response/thesis or prove an argument. A) Context clue. B) Annotate. C) Text evidence. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Text evidence. 25. A statement that can be proven true. A) Opinion. B) Dialogue. C) Excerpt. D) Fact. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fact. 26. In science, what is the term for the process of a liquid turning into a gas? A) Evaporation. B) Freezing. C) Precipitation. D) Condensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Evaporation. 27. What is it called when the ending sound of a word corresponds to another word? A) Stanza. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 28. What does the vocabulary word appeals mean? A) A word that means the opposite of another word. B) To get the reader's attention. C) An author's viewpoint. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To get the reader's attention. 29. Tell what will happen next A) Summarize. B) Predict. C) Contrast. D) Compare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Predict. 30. To closely examine something and see if all of the parts fit together in a way that makes sense. A) Analyze. B) Differentiate. C) Compile. D) Validity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analyze. 31. A figure of speech in which a person, thing, or abstract quality is addressed as if present A) Apostrophe. B) Antecedent. C) Abstract. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 32. What is the topic? A) The big idea, the subject. B) Fiction. C) Non-fiction. D) The lesson of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The big idea, the subject. 33. What is the main idea of the following passage? 'The rapid advancement of technology has transformed the way we communicate, making it easier and faster to connect with others around the world.' A) Technology has improved global communication. B) Technology has made communication more difficult. C) Technology has no impact on communication. D) Technology has slowed down communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Technology has improved global communication. 34. What means the same as PIGMENTATION? A) Blurry. B) Clean. C) Clear. D) Color. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Color. 35. What identifies this story as realistic fiction? A) A question to be answered at the end of class. B) Theme of the story. C) To know and say what something is. D) A comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To know and say what something is. 36. To break apart and deeply study the parts of something A) Cite. B) Analyze. C) Clarify. D) Compare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analyze. 37. ..... is a hint or clue about what will happen later. A) Climax. B) Foreshadowing. C) Resolution. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 38. In the sentence 'Despite the heavy rain, the match continued, ' what role does the word 'Despite' play? A) Preposition. B) Conjunction. C) Interjection. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Preposition. 39. To suggest, to say good things about A) Remark. B) Master. C) Recommend. D) Utter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recommend. 40. Ernesto practiced basketball so hard that he ..... in becoming the best player in his team. A) Disappointing. B) Succeeded. C) Enthusiastic. D) Expected. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Succeeded. 41. A comparison using 'like' or 'as' is called a: A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 42. Trustworthy and Reliable A) Credible. B) Demonstrate. C) Debate. D) Deduce. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Credible. 43. The chef ..... many extra ingredients to the recipe and created a magnificent dish A) Manufactured. B) Skeptical. C) Incorporated. D) Persistence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Incorporated. 44. A person who write a play is called- A) An author. B) An artist. C) A poet. D) A playwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A playwright. 45. I always feel the need to arrange things in an order that makes them easy to find. What do I do when I do this? A) Analyze. B) Organize. C) Effect. D) Identify. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organize. 46. A series of steps that describe how to perform an experiment. A) Recipe. B) Data collection. C) Metric system. D) Scientific method. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scientific method. 47. What does the word portable mean? Think of the meaning of the root port. A) Able to be easily heard. B) Able to be easily measured. C) Able to be easily carried. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Able to be easily carried. 48. Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct? A) They doesn't like apples. B) She doesn't like apples. C) She don't like apples. D) He doesn't likes apples. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She doesn't like apples. 49. Mickey tried to sit down in the empty seat, but the woman at the table shook her head and said it was occupied. A) Being used by someone else. B) Not clean. C) New. D) Available. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Being used by someone else. 50. When the test opinions are used to emphasize points or information within a text, it is called what? A) Textual Evidence. B) Evidence. C) Text Structure. D) Text Feature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Text Feature. 51. The words spoken or written by someone A) Quote. B) Description. C) Evidence. D) Scientific research. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quote. 52. What is the repetition of consonants or consonant sounds? A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 53. What does it mean to DISTINGUISH something? A) To note what makes something different. B) To confirm the truth of something. C) To create a plan or strategy. D) To remember a fact, event, or situation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To note what makes something different. 54. What does it mean when an author "advance and appeal" A) Information and evidence used to prove or corroborate something. B) Make an earnest request. C) To move forward in a purposeful way; make or cause to make progress. D) To arouse a sympathetic response. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To move forward in a purposeful way; make or cause to make progress. 55. What word describes things that are going into a reaction or system? A) Output. B) Input. C) Product. D) Results. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Input. 56. What is the first thing you should do before reading each text? A) Highlight words you don't know. B) Flag questions that seem difficult. C) Read the questions. D) Take out your scratch paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Read the questions. 57. Free from mistakes or errors A) Relevant. B) Similar. C) Credible. D) Accurate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Accurate. 58. To separate into the main parts and look carefully at each part A) Explain. B) Cause. C) Infer. D) Analyze. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analyze. 59. I am not nervious. I am really ..... about hiking the mountain. A) Confident. B) Determined. C) Specialized. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Confident. 60. Which part of the "plot" introduces the setting and characters? A) Resolution. B) Climax. C) Exposition. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesAcademic Vocabulary Quiz 1Academic Vocabulary Quiz 2Academic Vocabulary Quiz 3Academic Vocabulary Quiz 4Academic Vocabulary Quiz 5Academic Vocabulary Quiz 6Academic Vocabulary Quiz 7Academic Vocabulary Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books