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5th Day Review
For the past twenty weeks, each of these review exercises has contained a bit of propaganda to point up the need for you to expand your vocabulary. This week is no exception.
Match the twenty words with their meanings. Write the letter that stands for the definition in the appropriate answer |
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____ 1. ascetic |
a. one who practices self-denial |
____ 2. bona fide |
b. wealth |
____ 3. decadence |
c. concern with possessions |
____ 4. destitution |
d. luxurious |
____ 5. desultory |
e. decay |
____ 6. disciple |
f. disconnected, random |
____ 7. fulsome |
g. deliverance from ruin |
____ 8. indoctrinate |
h. extreme poverty |
____ 9. lush |
i. to teach certain principles |
____ 10. materialism |
j. excessive |
____ 11. metamorphosis |
k. nourish |
____ 12. nirvana |
l. heavenly place |
____ 13. nurture |
m. descendant |
____ 14. obsequious |
n. earnest prayer |
____ 15. opulence |
o. consider carefully |
____ 16. penance |
p. follower |
____ 17. ponder |
q. atonement for sin |
____ 18. salvation |
r. seeking favor |
____ 19. scion |
s. change |
____ 20. supplication |
t. genuine |
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____ 21. two strings to one's bow |
u. in a state of anxiety |
____ 22. on tenter hooks |
v. two means to achieve one's aim |
____ 23. fat is in the fire |
w. above suspicion |
____ 24. like Caesar's wife |
x. the mischief is done |
Now check your answers on page 312. Make a record of those words you missed.
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Wordsearch 21
Using the clues listed below, fill in each blank in the following story with one of the new words you learned this week.
History's Most Extraordinary Person?
In a celebrated essay about Joan of Arc, Mark Twain wrote movingly of her brief moment in the spotlighttwo short years in which she made an indelible mark on world history. At age 16 she was illiterate, had never strayed from her
sleepy little village, knew nothing of military combat, or courts of law. But at age 17, in a complete __________
she was named Commander-in-Chief of the French army, vowing to restore her king to his throne. Joan attracted many fervent followers, and a 
__________ called her "France's 
__________ ."
After much gallantry in battle, this 
__________ heroine was brought low by treachery at the French court and captured by the enemy. Joan defended herself brilliantly at a court trial, although she could neither read nor write. She was able to forecast future events with remarkable accuracy, correctly predicting her own martyrdom.
Mark Twain understood how geniuses such as Napoleon, Edison, and Wagner could develop but one could
__________ the facts for a lifetime without being able to explain how this humble peasant girl could display the qualities of a mature statesman, a learned jurist, and a military wizard. He concluded:
"Taking into account her origin, youth, sex, illiteracy, early environment, and the obstructing conditions under which she exploited her high gifts and made her conquests in the field and before the courts that tried her for her lifeshe is easily and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced."
Clues
3rd Day
3rd Day
4th Day
4th Day
2nd Day
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22nd Week
1st Day
New Words
juxtapose |
plight |
covert |
cope |
incompatibility |
Female Alcoholics
When we juxtapose the words "woman" and "alcoholic" many readers are surprised. However, the plight of America's several million female alcoholics is rapidly increasing in intensity. But the statistics are inexact because it is estimated that there are nine covert alcoholics for every one under treatment. Women drink to help themselves to cope with life's vicissitudes.* They drink because of financial pressures, incompatibility, frustration,* and related reasons.
Sample Sentences
Use the new words in the following sentences.
1.If we were to __________ our philosophies, your materialism* would conflict with my idealism.
2.Judge Felder commented with asperity* upon the wife's charge of __________.
3.Just how our club's president is able to __________ with so many disparate* personalities is something I'll never understand.
4.The __________ of the refugees who wandered about in a desultory* fashion moved us to tears.
5.Woodrow Wilson stated that he found __________ agreements to be reprehensible.*
Definitions
Match the new words with their meanings.
6. juxtapose |
____ a. quality of being mismated, lack of harmony |
7. plight |
____ b. to place side by side |
8. covert |
____ c. predicament, dangerous situation |
9. cope |
____ d. secret, hidden |
10. incompatibility |
____ e. to be a match for, to be able to handle |
Today's Idiom
plea bargainto agree to plead guilty to a lesser charge so as to avoid trial for a more serious offense.
The defendant finally took his lawyer's advice and agreed to a plea bargain of third-degree assault.
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