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4th Day
New Words
puissant |
unabated |
maudlin |
levity |
lugubrious |
or pyü is′ nt
Tongue in Cheek*?
The U.S. Public Health Service admits to frustration* in its attempts to destroy the cockroach. As soon as the scientists devise a puissant chemical, some bugs succumb.* But the hardy ones survive and breed a resistant strain. Since the average female produces close to three hundred descendants, little hope is held out for a final solution to the roach problem. Nevertheless, extermination campaigns continue unabated. Surprisingly, some sentimental souls become maudlin as they consider the persecution of the insects. A writer noted for his levity made a lugubrious plea for a crash program of aid for the cockroach, calling him "a victim of his slum environment."
Sample Sentences
Use the new words in the following sentences.
1.She advocated* __________ music as appropriate background for the funeral scene.
2.Although the debater's rebuttal was __________, it was totally irrelevant.*
3.The plague continued __________, and the hapless* Friar John was unable to deliver the note to Romeo.
4.A good barometer* of the reunion's success was the number of __________ songs that the alumni sang.
5.Dean Flanigan admonished* us for our __________ at the graduation exercises.
Definitions
Match the new words with their meanings.
6. puissant |
____ a. sentimental |
7. unabated |
____ b. very sad |
8. maudlin |
____ c. lightness of disposition |
9. levity |
____ d. without subsiding |
10. lugubrious |
____ e. powerful |
Today's Idiom
to take the wind out of one's sailsto remove someone's advantage
Although Edna was bristling* with anger when she stormed in, I took the wind out of her sails by voicing my own displeasure at the way she had been treated.
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5th Day Review
There are many choice epithets* for cockroaches, and over the centuries man has been most resourceful* in concocting* adjectives to describe the insects. Whether you are going to get excited over a roach, write a poem, take a College Board examination, or compose a letter to a loved one, it helps to have a rich vocabulary.
Match the twenty words with their meanings. Write the letter that stands for the definition in the appropriate answer space.
Review Words |
Definitions |
____ 1. abstemious |
a. different |
____ 2. derogatory |
b. sentimental |
____ 3. disparate |
c. building |
____ 4. edifice |
d. very sad |
____ 5. extant |
e. humor, lightness of disposition |
____ 6. indict |
f. vague, not clear |
____ 7. levity |
g. expressing a low opinion |
____ 8. lugubrious |
h. eating any kind of food |
____ 9. maudlin |
i. accuse |
____ 10. nebulous |
j. state of rest |
____ 11. omnivorous |
k. still existing |
____ 12. pesky |
l. powerful |
____ 13. puissant |
m. annoying |
____ 14. redolent |
n. fragrant |
____ 15. repose |
o. moderate in eating or drinking |
____ 16. reviled |
p. keen, sharp, biting |
____ 17. sultry |
q. torrid |
____ 18. trenchant |
r. difficulties |
____ 19. unabated |
s. without subsiding |
____ 20. vicissitudes |
t. scolded |
Idioms |
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____ 21. left holding the bag |
u. insincerely |
____ 22. a lick and a promise |
v. left to suffer the blame |
____ 23. tongue in cheek |
w. do something in a cursory* manner |
____ 24. take the wind out of one's sails |
x. remove someone's advantage |
Now check your answers on page 311. Make a record of those words you missed.
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Hapless Headlines
(From Week 20)
Restore meaning to the headlines below by inserting the word that the careless typesetter omitted.
a.Pesky
b.Maudlin
c.Repose
d.Abstemious
e.Sultry
f.Vicissitudes
g.Redolent
h.Levity
i.Derogatory
j.Unabated
k.Reviled
l.Puissant
m.Nebulous
n.Trenchant
o.Lugubrious
p.Disparate
q.Indict
r.Extant
s.Omnivorous
t.Edifice
1.Rioting Continues __________ in Men's Correctional Facility
2.Torch Singer's __________ Songs Raise Temperature in Night Club
3.__________ Life-Style Results in Huge Weight Loss for Actor
4.Architect Celebrated for New All-Glass __________
5.Serious Judge Will Tolerate No __________ in His Courtroom
6.Grand Jury Set to __________ Bookkeeper in Million Dollar Fraud
7.Baseball Manager to Apologize for __________ Remarks about Umpire
8.Only Three Copies of Shakespeare's Handwriting __________, Says Elizabethan Scholar
9.Handicapped Climbers Overcome Many __________ to Scale Mt. Everest
10.Dictator __________ by South American Patriots
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