"Doctors recommend that everyone exercise every day, particularly those

who spend many hours doing SEDENTARY activities like reading, watching
television, or playing video games."  
Which of the following correctly defines the meaning of the word
SEDENTARY?
a. To engage in physical activity.
b. To spend time using minimal brain function.
c. To engage in criminal activity.
d. To spend much time seated.

When there is no dictionary is available, the definition of a word can be

guessed by looking for                               .
a. blues clues
b. contest rules
c. context clues
d. metaphors

Context clues can be found around the word in the surrounding:

a. sentence
b. paragraph
c. phrase
d. all of the above

In a stagnant housing market, few people buy homes. 

In the above sentence, the word STAGNANT means:
a. not impressionable
b. very popular
c. not active
d. very busy

This sentence uses the vocabulary word CONGESTED correctly.

I will be arriving very late to work because the freeways are severely
congested.
a. True
b. False
On October 30, 2012, Hurricane Sandy destroyed many homes in New York.
At the same time, a huge fire destroyed 80-100 houses in a flooded
beachfront neighborhood, forcing firefighters to undertake daring rescues
and injuring three people. 

In this story the word FORCING means

a. to do without a choice.
b. to push strongly.
c. to laugh.
d. to destroy.

Sometimes your conscience COMPELS you to do something even when

everyone else is telling you do something different.

What does the word COMPELS most likely mean?

a. Discourages
b. Forces
c. Ignores
d. Wants

The word tamper is used correctly in this sentence:

Do not tamper with the medicine.
a. True
b. False

After having spent his entire life in a middle-class neighborhood in a small town, Joey was
struck by the poverty and suffering he saw when he traveled across the country for the first time.
He was overcome by feelings of deep sadness and confusion. Like many people, he believed that
poverty no longer existed in the United States. He wanted to help, but he did not know what to
do.

Based on its context in this passage, what does the word struck mean in the first sentence?
a. to have an emotional response
b. to be viciously attacked
c. to pose in a certain way
d. to hit something intentionally

Which of the following is an example of something that happens annually?

a. birthday
b. brushing teeth
c. doing laundry
d. watching television
In the next to last line, the speaker uses the word TEMPEST. The meaning of
the word tempest is most likely
a. a play by Shakespeare.
b. a Greek god.
c. a calm ride on a ship.
d. a violent, windy storm.

Sharon had just graduated high school, literally. Only thirty minutes earlier,
she was walking across the stage and accepting her diploma. After she
accepted it, she continued walking; off the stage, through the crowd, and
out of the school. She was ready to start her adult life, and she felt that she
could not do that if she spent the rest of the day and the month reliving her
high school memories. She told herself that moving on with her life required
the abandonment of childish friends, desires, and memories. She was ready
to be a new person, or at least she thought she was ready. 

In the context of this passage, what is the meaning of the word

abandonment?
a. to embrace something
b. to leave empty and bereft
c. to give up or relinquish
d. to be irresponsible