This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Academic Writing > Academic Vocabulary – Quiz 37 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Academic Vocabulary Quiz 37 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To try to locate or discover A) Seek. B) Assume. C) Obtain. D) Analyze. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seek. 2. You are writing an email to your principal. Which closing is most appropriate? A) Later!. B) Sincerely,. C) Peace out,. D) See ya,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sincerely,. 3. Give an example of an academic vocabulary word. A) Hypothesis. B) Data. C) Conclusion. D) Experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypothesis. 4. What does zoology mean? A) An expert in or student of the behavior, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals. B) A facility with usually indoor and outdoor settings where living, typically wild animals are kept especially for public exhibition. C) The study of the biology and behavior of animals. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The study of the biology and behavior of animals. 5. Contribute A) Help to cause or bring about. B) Creating a response in the reader. C) Taking a position about the topic. D) Give money to a cause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Help to cause or bring about. 6. Family celebrations are really ..... for me. A) Severe. B) Significant. C) Exposed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Significant. 7. Objective A) How a story is revealed. B) Free of any opinions, personal beliefs, or judgments. C) How writers develop ideas through a text. D) A reasonable guess based on textual evidence and what you already know. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free of any opinions, personal beliefs, or judgments. 8. Collete didn't sleep very well on her flight, but she thought she may have dozed for a few minutes. A) Slept lightly. B) Pilot of the plane. C) Dreamed. D) Sat very still. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slept lightly. 9. The leading character of a story. A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Fiction. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protagonist. 10. This poem is written so that the reader laughs. A) Narrative. B) Haiku. C) Lyrical. D) Humorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humorous. 11. In order to enter the Zoom meeting, the students had to log in with a ..... email address.What word best fills in the blank in the sentence above? A) Evident. B) Specific. C) Factor. D) Indicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Specific. 12. This court case created the phrase "separate but equal." A) Brown v. Board of Education. B) Civil Rights Act. C) Plessy v. Ferguson. D) Parks v. Recreation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plessy v. Ferguson. 13. Clues or proof A) Detective. B) Deduce. C) Evidence. D) Emphasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evidence. 14. Hypothesis is most similar to: A) A guess. B) A fact. C) A rule. D) A question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A guess. 15. In which sentence is the word 'argument' used in its academic sense? A) My brother and I had a loud argument over the remote. B) Her essay presented a strong argument for recycling. C) Stop trying to start an argument with me!. D) Their argument was so noisy the neighbors complained. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her essay presented a strong argument for recycling. 16. Multiply regardless of how the numbers are grouped (a x b) x c = a x (b x c) A) Zero property of multiplication. B) Identity property of multiplication. C) Associative property of multiplication. D) Distributive property of multiplication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Associative property of multiplication. 17. Early European explorers of Australia encountered a people for whom the ..... of ownership and trade were completely unknown. A) VARIABLES. B) CONCEPTS. C) ENVIRONMENT. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) CONCEPTS. 18. Compares two things that are very different (Example: "The sun is a yellow ball." ) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Problem. D) Solution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. She spent her ..... traveling around the world. A) University. B) Career. C) Gap year. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gap year. 20. Exaggerate A) The lines spoken between characters, when someone is talking. B) When the writer gives a hint of what will happen later in the story. C) Overreact, dramatic. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overreact, dramatic. 21. What suffix can be added to 'educate' to form a noun? A) Education. B) Educative. C) Educator. D) Educational. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Education. 22. Explain A) The story comes to a reasonable ending. B) The author wants to give you information. C) The author wants to amuse you or for you to enjoy the writing. D) The author wants to tell you how to do something or how something works. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The author wants to tell you how to do something or how something works. 23. The connotative mean of a word is the ..... A) Suggested meaning. B) Literal meaning. C) Made up meaning. D) Opinion of the author. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suggested meaning. 24. What is the definition for conveyed? A) To communicate by statement, suggestion, gesture, or appearance. B) What the author wants the reader to know about the subject he/she is writing about. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To communicate by statement, suggestion, gesture, or appearance. 25. To make clear by citing examples A) Indicate. B) Formulate. C) Illustrate. D) Sequence. 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