I’m making the vocabulary final for my little darlings. I’m also working on making the book test. My brain is being very fried so I thought I would put this up here in case anyone is feeling bored.
Your challenge, should you choose to take it, is to create questions for the final. The test is going to be administered with a scantron for ease of grading. Make one question, five, the whole test… anything would be great. 🙂 The directions and words are below in the cut…
Synonyms – For this section students should have a choice of four words with one of them being an obvious recognizable synonym. The other three could be antonyms or anything that sounds similiar enough that they have to think about it.
The other three shouldn’t be too out there, but being a little obvious is ok.
Antonyms – For this section students should have a choice of four words with one of them being an obvious recognizable antonym. The other three could be synonyms or anything that sounds similiar enough that they have to think about it. The other three shouldn’t be too out there, but being a little obvious is ok.
Fill in the blank- Write a sentence using a vocabulary word and then choose three other somewhat similar vocabulary words; they have to be plausible answers.
Multiple choice correct usage – There should be four similar sentences all utilizing one vocabulary word. One choice could be correct usage and the other three incorrect or vice versa. (Usage problems are things like using an adverb as a noun or some such.)
I would like nearly equal numbers of the different types of questions.
And the 50 words in random order: (Strike outs represent words that have already been done.)
Gall, Apprehension, Disconcerting, Incredulous, Vehemently, Malicious, Licentious, Contention, Ineptly, Reproach, Levity, Swank, Oppressiveness, Undaunted, Laudable, Contingencies, Indignant, Ingratiate, Vacuous, Malign, Genially, Scorn, Vulgar, Libertine, Rancor, Eccentric, Enunciating, Jubilance, Relinquished, Interminable, Portentous, Affront, Dreary, Mores, Bemuse, Juxtaposition, Ghetto, Assimilation, Promenades, Ridicule, Languidly, Gruffness, Manifestation, Ineptly, Innuendo, Confounded, Engrossed, Deference, Jaunty, Tyranny, Extemporizing
For the record: I don’t expect anyone to do any of this. I just know that many of my friends kill a lot of time on the intarweb bored and doing this would help me. 🙂 I will be finishing this test on Sunday so I can do my copies on Monday. I hope someone decides to do at least a few. 🙂
Fill in the blank- Write a sentence using a vocabulary word and then choose three other somewhat similar vocabulary words; they have to be plausible answers.
So all four answers have to be plausible? That seems like it would defeat the purpose since I’d think all four answers could be correct. Or am I being stupid?
If the other three answers are “well duh, stupid” then there isn’t really any skill or knowledge involved in answering. You should have to know the word to know which is the right answer and if you haven’t got a clue, yes it should be at least somewhat confusing. The question and answer should not teach you the definition.
Oh! Yeah, that makes much more sense.
(PS: Promenades is the noun, right?)
Promenades = verb
If you take the ‘s’ off, then it’s a noun.
“She promenades across the catwalk.” verb.
“She catwalks across the promenade.” noun
Dictionary.com: prom·e·nades
v. intr.
1. To go on a leisurely walk.
2. To execute a promenade at a ball or in square dancing.
Re: Promenades = verb
Eek. So the infinitive is ‘to promenades’?
French is weird.
Re: Promenades = verb
nope, the infinitive in English is “to promenade”. (Like “to walk”, which is what a promenade is – a special kind of walk.) In French it would be something else.
Although, just to split hairs in your favor, it could be the plural form of the singular noun… ‘They went to many promenades…’
`But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument”,’ Alice objected.
`When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
`The question is,’ said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
`The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master — that’s all.’
He’s right, it’s a verb. 🙂
Then I’m glad I didn’t get around to that one. (:
syn-onyms
Vehemently: Forcefully, Lethargically, Indifferently, Sincerely, Routinely
Undaunted:, Unclear, Unavailable, Uncowed, Unique, Unworthy
Usage
Usage: Reproach
She saw that it was necessary to reproach him for his poor behavior.
He thought he out to take a different reproach to the problem.
The brooch he gave her was a lovely shade of reproach.
The acrobat let go of the trapeze and swung into a reproach position.
(say, this is kinda fun!)
Re: Usage oops
Except of course there shouldn’t be any glaring spelling errors in the questions! Argh!
out = “ought”
Re: Usage
I would like to take this moment to say: I have always liked you, but I think I am falling in love. 🙂
And he’s pretty good with a single tail, too.
[smooch] >;)
Re: And he’s pretty good with a single tail, too.
Mmmmmm
I remember. *swoon*
Re: Usage
The brooch he gave her was a lovely shade of reproach.
I like this sentence: a gift meant ever to serve as a reminder of how you did me wrong.
Re: Usage
shouldn’t that be “how you done me wrong”?
usage
The flat tire took him out of contention in the race.
She arrived at the center late, and was unable to sign up for the contention.
The contention of the poem was very vivid.
He claimed that he was quoted out of contention.
(these are tough to do. It’s like being an experienced musician and trying to play a wrong note on purpose.)
Her innuendo was puffy and purple.
He objected to her sly innuendo about his character.
At the dance contest, the couple performed a perfect innuendo.
The raging innuendo nearly demolished the building.
usage
Laudable
She thought his gallantry under such trying circumstances was laudable.
He drank all the laudable and left none for anybody else.
He was very laudable with his daughter after she spoke out of turn.
The professor spoke so quietly that he was barely laudable.
whee!
Daxle and I have been talking about “jaunty” a lot this week!
Let me think about some sentences…
He was called to court to give a juxtaposition.
At the freeway juxtaposition, head south on 880.
The boquet was a pretty juxtaposition of roses and peonies.
…crap I need one more sentence.
Synonyms
Ingratiate
Imitate, Charm, Compel, Innovate
Dreary, Syn:
dark
dismal
drafty
doughty
although, you’d probably argue that if they don’t know dreary they certainly won’t know doughty. But doughty keeps my alliteration alive.
Oppressiveness (usage)
The oppressiveness of the government caused much rebellion among the citizens.
The most entertaining part of the musical play was the oppressiveness of the leading actress.
The football coach told his players they needed to work on their team spirit and individual oppressiveness.
The firm rewarded him with a raise for the oppressiveness of his marketing campaign.
Re: Oppressiveness (usage)
Actually, a person (well, a smartass) could make a case for any of these sentences.
“Oppressive marketing campaign” – I think we’ve all seen some of those, yes?
Re: Oppressiveness (usage)
Hmmm…do you know any smartasses?
This was one of the things that made writing the sentences challenging for me. If you’re a lover of the creative use of words, it’s entirely -possible- to imagine things like an ‘oppressive leading actress’ or a couple ‘performing a perfect innuendo at a dance contest’ (nothing in that sentence claims they were actually dancing now, does it?)
I just have to figure that these are school kids, they’re not -supposed- to get that creative and they know it… and if any one of them does and can make a decent case to for why they -should- be right, I expect she will do the right thing on a case by case basis.
Lord knows, I had my fair share of teachers I could browbeat into accepting my own alternative interpretations of the class material, as long as I could explain why it made sense to see it my way and not the way it was *supposed* to be seen. And god bless ’em every one!
I wondered if anyone else was going to look at those the same way I might! 🙂
Re: Oppressiveness (usage)
Me? Know smartasses? Nahhhh.
I see that you see that I friended you. And it’s all because of what you had to write here, you know. Plus also I think I discovered that bouncer’s blog ‘coz of you.
Should I ever make it up Seattle-way again, I hope to look you up.
Re: Oppressiveness (usage)
And you see that I see that you see that…nah. I surfed enough of your journal to decide that it was well worth my time to reciprocate, also. Welcome to my asylum, how’s the view?
Thank you, and you’re welcome. 🙂
Feel free to look me up some time– I’m not shy, but I can be reclusive at times. I’m sure I’d be pleased to meet you!
Assimilation, antonyms:
Similar
Understand
Different
Confusing
er, closing the tag would have helped
Affront, antonyms:
Behind
Insult
Afford
Compliment
antonyms:
Undaunted: desired, cowardly, proud, valiant
(Ooh, this is hard. Is this one helpful at all? I found a bunch of websites that might be helpful.)
http://home.earthlink.net/~ruthpett/safari/megalist.htm
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
http://www.touro.edu/esl/COMMONLY.HTM
http://www.sfwa.org/writing/mistakes.htm
http://www.amherst.edu/~writing/writingbetter/pitfalls.html
http://homepage.smc.edu/reading_lab/words_commonly_confused.htm
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/conford.html
http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/classicerrors/confused/
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0200807.html
http://esl.about.com/cs/vocabulary/a/a_confused.htm
http://www.smcm.edu/writingcenter/Resources/rec_writers/gram_style/confused/confusewrd.htm
http://writing.lifetips.com/cat/8495/commonly-confused-words/index.html
http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
http://www.rinkworks.com/words/confused.shtml