This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Academic Writing > Academic Vocabulary – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Academic Vocabulary Quiz 7 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the word EDUCATION mean? A) Knowledge or skill gained from study or practice. B) The study of exercise. C) Another word for gym class. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knowledge or skill gained from study or practice. 2. Choose the best alternative for the word devices. When I do research, my computer is a reasearch ..... A) Implement. B) Source. C) Tool. D) Method. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tool. 3. A morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form A) Allegory. B) Annotate. C) Affix. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Affix. 4. To amuse or keep interested A) Persuade. B) Inform. C) Entertain. D) Purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Entertain. 5. When a story relives a previous moment, like a memory, dream, etc A) Flashback. B) Narration. C) Flash forward. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 6. Find the answer A) Solve. B) Associative property of multiplication. C) Decompose. D) Array. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solve. 7. In which sentence could anticipation fill in the blank? A) My was not fun because it rained. B) I look forward to summer with happy . C) The was noisy because of so many people. D) We plan to have lots this summer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I look forward to summer with happy . 8. The universal truth, lesson, or moral about life that a text presents A) Theme. B) Central idea. C) Drama. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 9. Extreme exaggeration A) Pun. B) Idiom. C) Paradox. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 10. In which sentence is objective used correctly? A) They objective everything we suggest. B) They are objective and look at both sides of the issues. C) They are objective and spend more time with one friend than the other. D) They are not objective and will always be late. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are objective and look at both sides of the issues. 11. Began to thaw the ice that was my heart. What literary device is this sentence A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. What does ARGUE mean? A) Serve as a means of expressing something. B) Present reasons to support one's views. C) A detailed investigation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Present reasons to support one's views. 13. A physical characteristic of a country is ..... A) A natural feature that is present without people's efforts (ex. climate, landform, natural resource, native plant or animal). B) A shared practice or thing that is created by humans (ex. shelter, food, language, religion, recreation, industry). C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A natural feature that is present without people's efforts (ex. climate, landform, natural resource, native plant or animal). 14. In which sentence is subsequent used correctly? A) The subsequent information always comes first. B) There is a subsequent to plan. C) We can subsequent for the team that is late. D) Each subsequent grade in school is more challenging. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Each subsequent grade in school is more challenging. 15. A suffix meaning "in a certain way" A) -y. B) -ly. C) -er. D) -ful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -ly. 16. To come to a reasonable answer by deduction, to infer A) Derive. B) Obtain. C) Indicate. D) Context. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Derive. 17. The feeling the reader gets when reading a text A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Dialogue. D) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 18. I did not understand number 8 on the math test, so my teacher had to ..... it to me. A) Explain. B) Identify. C) Define. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Explain. 19. As he sat on the grass and looked across the river, a dark hole in the bank opposite, just above the water's edge, caught his eye, and dreamily he fell to considering what a nice, snug dwelling-place it would make for an animal with few wants and fond of a bijou riverside residence, above flood level and remote from noise and dust.What does the word remote mean as it is used in the sentence? A) Bothered. B) Delayed. C) Isolated. D) Reserved. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Isolated. 20. Which term means putting things in order by time, from earliest to latest? A) Chronological. B) Contrast. C) Claim. D) Evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chronological. 21. A text that examines a topic and conveys ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content A) Argument text. B) Literary text. C) Informative/explanatory text. D) Narrative text. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Informative/explanatory text. 22. What is a verb? A) Person, place, thing or idea?. B) Shows action. C) Takes the place of a noun. D) Describes action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shows action. 23. Key details are ..... A) Important words or phrases. B) The message conveyed to the reader in a text. C) What a text is mostly about. D) The subject of a text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Important words or phrases. 24. What is assonance? A) The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words. B) Repeating vowel sounds in words that are close together. C) A phrase with a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning. D) A large section of a play containing the main action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repeating vowel sounds in words that are close together. 25. What does the word "Calculate" mean? A) Give the reasons why something happens. Use the word "because" . B) Use numbers in the question to work out an answer. Show your workings. C) Give a brief one or two word answer, or a short sentence. D) Say what you think will happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use numbers in the question to work out an answer. Show your workings. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesAcademic Vocabulary Quiz 1Academic Vocabulary Quiz 2Academic Vocabulary Quiz 3Academic Vocabulary Quiz 4Academic Vocabulary Quiz 5Academic Vocabulary Quiz 6Academic Vocabulary Quiz 8Academic Vocabulary Quiz 9Academic Vocabulary Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books