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5th Day Review
Many teachers have jested about their students who confused rabies with rabbis, Jewish clergymen. We know that those who get the message of this book, true vocabulary mastery, will make few such errors.
Match the twenty words with their meanings. Write the letter that stands for the definition in the appropriate answer |
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____ 1. coerce |
a. to flood, to swamp |
____ 2. comprehensive |
b. home |
____ 3. conjecture |
c. painful to the feelings, moving |
____ 4. corroborate |
d. useless |
____ 5. domicile |
e. reckless |
____ 6. elapse |
f. confirm |
____ 7. fruitless |
g. calm, sluggish |
____ 8. garbled |
h. sensational |
____ 9. inundate |
i. hopeful |
____ 10. lax |
j. do away with |
____ 11. lurid |
k. confused, mixed up |
____ 12. meticulous |
l. guess |
____ 13. obviate |
m. to pass by |
____ 14. phlegmatic |
n. careless |
____ 15. poignant |
o. occasional |
____ 16. quip |
p. thorough |
____ 17. rash |
q. careful |
____ 18. sanguine |
r. to force |
____ 19. sporadic |
s. enthusiastic |
____ 20. zealous |
t. to joke |
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____ 21. to feather one's nest |
u. to lead a wild life |
____ 22. fair-weather friends |
v. unexpected financial gain |
____ 23. to sow wild oats |
w. unreliable acquaintances |
____ 24. windfall |
x. provide for oneself at the expense of others |
Now check your answers on page 308. Make a record of those words you missed. If you were able to get them all right, use the five spaces to create antonyms for numbers 7, 8, 10, 17, and 19.
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Wordsearch 11
Using the clues listed below, fill in each blank in the following story with one of the new words you learned this week.
Assuming Blunders
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for Richard Sands." "Deliver us from evil. Lead us not into Penn Station."
Teachers who train students to memorize and then do rote recitations sometimes find that the youngsters have a
__________ interpretation of the actual words. Eliza Berman, an educator who is 
__________ about her own use of language, invited colleagues to send her examples of confusion in students' writings. Little did she
realize that they would quickly 
__________ her letterbox with their pet mistakes. As a result, Ms. Berman was able to compile a fairly 
__________ list of howlers that include the following:
"The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called Mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot." "Homer wrote The Oddity in which Penelope was the first hardship Ulysses endured on his journey."
"Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock." "King Alfred conquered the Dames."
"Indian squabs carried porpoises on their backs."
"Under the Constitution, the people enjoy the right to keep bare arms."
"In the Olympic Games, the Greeks ran, jumped, hurled the bisquits and threw the java." "Lincoln was America's greatest Precedent."
Ms. Berman is not too 
__________ about eliminating such errors from pupils' compositions and test papers. Her advice: enjoy!
Clues
1st Day
3rd Day
1st Day
2nd Day
1st Day
Answers are on Page 308
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