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Doing Double Duty
(From Weeks 2528)
Select seven of the twelve words below that can be used as more than one part of speech (for example: noun and verb, noun and adjective). Then compose sentences using each word both ways.
1.hoard
2.revere
3.transient
4.pungent
5.falter
6.sedate
7.sage
8.rebuke
9.paramount
10.obscure
11.exploit
12.senile
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Wordsearch 28
Using the clues listed below, fill in each blank in the following story with one of the new words you learned this week.
Read My Lips
For many years it has been the goal of computer specialists to perfect a machine that would understand human speech. The problem is that the speaker has to be alone and in a quiet room. Noise will 
__________ the computer's ability. In the 
__________ of a special room, the computer works well.
Now, math wizards are trying to develop a computer that will read lips despite any surrounding 
__________.
While some of us think it 
__________ to believe that a computer can read lips, the experiments go on. And there has been some success.
Progress in all aspects of computer science has been so remarkable that we hesitate to rule out any possibility. There
is one 
__________ rule about the world of computers: the seemingly impossible gets done more quickly than we ever imagined.
Clues
2nd Day
3rd Day
1st Day
4th Day
2nd Day
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29th Week
1st Day
New Words
lithe |
obese |
adherent |
bliss |
pathetic |
blis
A Sport for Everyone
Of the many highly popular sports in the United States, football must be rated around the top. This sport allows the speedy and lithe athlete to join with the slower and obsese one in a team effort. The skills and strengths of many men are welded together so that one team may work as a unit to gain mastery over its opponent. The knowledgeable adherent of a team can follow action covering many parts of the playing field at the same time. He is in a state of bliss when his team executes a movement to perfection. However, there is no one more pathetic than the same fan when the opposition functions to equal perfection.
Sample Sentences
Use the new words in these sentences.
1.The disgruntled* __________ switched his loyalty to the opposition party.
2.It was a pleasure to watch the __________ body of the ballet dancer as she performed the most difficult steps.
3.There is something __________ about a great athlete who continues to compete long after he has been bereft* of his talents.
4.His insatiable* hunger for sweets soon made him __________.
5.Oh, what __________ could be seen in the eyes of the ardent* couple as they announced their engagement! Definitions
Match the new words with their definitions.
6. lithe |
____ a. backer, supporter |
7. obese |
____ b. very fat |
8. adherent |
____ c. sad, pitiful, distressing |
9. bliss |
____ d. graceful |
10. pathetic |
____ e. happiness, pleasure |
Today's Idiom
on the spur of the momenton impulse, without thinking
On the spur of the moment he turned thumbs down* on the new job. Answers are on Page 314
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