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Grade 7 Language Arts - Word Meanings Post Test


Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 
This virus has really sapped my energy. I get tired just walking across the room. I hope to get better soon because I need to return to work. What does sap probably mean?
a.
give, increase
b.
make slow
c.
take away, drain
d.
enhance
 

Matching
 
 
Read the following paragraph and then match the bolded words to their meanings below:

After the Coronation, Elizabeth and Philip moved to Buckingham Palace in central London. It is believed, however, that like many of her predecessors she dislikes the Palace as a residence and considers Windsor Castle, west of London, to be her home. She also spends time at Balmoral Castle in Scotland and at Sandringham House in Norfolk. Queen Elizabeth is the most widely traveled head of state in history. In 1953–54 she and Philip made a six-month round-the-world tour, becoming the first British reigning monarch to circumnavigate the globe.
a.
circumnavigate
b.
coronation
c.
predecessors
d.
reigning
 

 2. 

 the act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign or the sovereign's consort.
 

 3. 

 one who precedes another in time, especially in holding an office or position.
 

 4. 

 to exercise sovereign power
 

 5. 

 travel around, either by plane or ship
 



 
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