Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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In the following sentence which definition of raised is used?
We raised
$200.00 for the charity at the fundraiser.
a. | To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to
raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; to raise cattle. | c. | To form by the accumulation of
materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap
of stones. | b. | To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to
invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the
courage; to raise the heat of a furnace. | d. | To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service;
as, to raise money, troops, and the like |
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After reading the following sentence, determine the best meaning of the word
issued.
The post office issued a new Olympic stamp to honor the athletes.
a. | The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test;
trial. | c. | To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a
bank. | b. | The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as,
the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a
house. | d. | A point in debate or
controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of
alternatives between which to choose or decide. |
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After reading the following sentence, what is the meaning of drop?
There
was a 20 degree drop in the temperature outside.
a. | Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. | c. | That which resembles, or that which
hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a
chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug. | b. | To let go; to
dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to
omit. | d. | Any medicine the dose
of which is measured by drops; as lavender drops. |
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After reading the following sentence, what is the meaning of full?
The
roses were in full bloom.
a. | Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or
vacant. | c. | To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well. | b. | Quite; to the same
degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely;
exactly; entirely. | d. | Having
the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with
information. |
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After reading the following question, what is the meaning of fine
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The professor thought I did a fine job on my essay.
a. | To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the
soil. | c. | To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on
by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten
dollars. | b. | When used as a word of praise, fine denotes no "ordinary thing of its
kind." It is not as strong as beautiful, | d. | To finish; to cease; or to cause to
cease. |
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After reading the following sentence, what is the meaning of mind?
I
don't mind if you play the music loudly.
a. | To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to
mind one's business. | c. | What we mean by mind is simply that which perceives, thinks, feels,
wills, and desires. | b. | The state, at any given time, of the faculties
of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state. | d. | Memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have
or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind. |
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After reading the following sentence, what is the best definition of the word
bite?
I had to get a bite to eat after the long day at work.
a. | The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold
which one part of a machine has upon another. | c. | To cause sharp pain, or smarting,
to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the
mouth. | b. | A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting. | d. | To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to;
as, the anchor bites the ground |
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In the following sentence which defintion of after is used?
After we ate
dinner, we went bowling.
a. | In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a
model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father | c. | Moving toward from behind;
following, in search of; in pursuit of. | b. | Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper,
after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the
clause. | d. | Later in time;
subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was
interposed between it and the clause. |
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In the following sentence which definition of catch is used?
I hope I
don't catch a cold after staying up all night working on my assignment.
a. | That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a
gate. | c. | To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion,
with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball. | b. | To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy,
contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or
smallpox; to catch a cold; the house caught fire. | d. | To be held or impeded by entanglement or a
light obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to
open. |
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After reading the following sentence, determine the best definition of
mean.
I didn't mean to do that!
a. | Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible;
despicable. | c. | To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design;
as, what do you mean to do? | b. | By all means, certainly; without fail; as, go,
by all means. By any means, in any way; possibly; at all. | d. | Average; having an intermediate value between
two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of
variation. |
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