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5th Day Review
Once more it is time to review this week's words. Always keep in mind that the use of the word, its context, determines its meaning. Used as a noun, a word has a different meaning than when it is used as an adjective or a verb. First, master the words as they appear in the daily stories. Next, look up other meanings in your dictionary. Try writing sentences with the additional meanings.
Review Words |
Definitions |
____ 1. anomaly |
a. agitation, turmoil, uproar |
____ 2. arbiter |
b. attending, accompanying |
____ 3. attenuated |
c. abnormality, irregularity |
____ 4. concomitant |
d. cautious, wise |
____ 5. deleterious |
e. protest, differ, disagree |
____ 6. dissent |
f. rough, harsh, shrill |
____ 7. efficacy |
g. multiply, spread, produce |
____ 8. ferment |
h. lack of faith, dissent, unbelief |
____ 9. fervid |
i. morally required |
____ 10. heresy |
j. power to produce an effect |
____ 11. incumbent |
k. setting, environment |
____ 12. innocuous |
l. counterfeit, false, specious* |
____ 13. lassitude |
m. judge |
____ 14. milieu |
n. harmful, bad |
____ 15. ostensible |
o. superabundance, excess |
____ 16. propagate |
p. enthusiastic, passionate, intense |
____ 17. prudent |
q. decreased, weakened, thinned |
____ 18. spurious |
r. mild, innocent, harmless |
____ 19. strident |
s. fatigue, weariness |
____ 20. surfeit |
t. seeming, pretended, outward |
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____ 21. cold shoulder |
u. to be discharged or fired |
____ 22. swan song |
v. making no sense |
____ 23. to get the sack |
w. final or last |
____ 24. without rhyme or reason |
x. to disregard or ignore |
Check your answers on page 315. Get to work learning the words that gave you trouble.
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Wordsearch 31
Using the clues listed below, fill in each blank in the following story with one of the new words you learned this week.
Cross My Palm with Silver
People are fascinated by those who say they can predict the future. Fortune tellers continue to attract gullible
customers, and horoscopes are examined daily to see if there is something 
__________ to worry about in the day ahead. One specialist who seems to have found a way to predict something of our future is the palm reader. It is her belief that a long ''life line" in the hand means the customer will enjoy longevity.
While this appears to be a 
__________ way to predict long life, a study done in England measured "life lines" of
100 corpses and came up with 
__________ support for the claim: the length of life matched the length of line. The longer the line, the older the person lived to be.
However, there are scientists who 
__________ with believers in this apparent connection. The "life line" of
older people is longer only because the hand becomes more wrinkled with age. Length of line is a __________
of length of life, not the reverse, say scientists. Clues
3rd Day
1st Day
1st Day
4th Day
3rd Day
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32nd Week
1st Day
New Words
profound |
alleviate |
prodigious |
expedite |
celerity |
The Library Machine
As automation permeates* many new ideas of life, its effect upon us becomes concomitantly* more profound. Information processing and communications machines are finding their way into libraries. Here they alleviate the burden of storing and bringing out to the reader the accumulation of information that is becoming more prodigious in this era of specialization and threatening to inundate* our already encumbered* library system. As a way to expedite the selection of pertinent* information for the reader, the machine scans 5,000 words per minute. It is the celerity of machine reading that makes automation in the library so valuable.
Sample Sentences
Insert your new words below.
1.We hoped that the arbiter* would __________ the solution to the fracas* that had been so elusive* for a long time.
2.He accepted the lucrative* position with __________.
3.It is easy to construe* a superficial* remark to be a __________ one.
4.If we cannot __________ the harmful effects entirely, at least we can attenuate* them.
5.The enemy made a __________ effort to repress* the uprising.
Definitions
Match the new words with their definitions.
6. profound |
____ a. carry out promptly |
7. alleviate |
____ b. speed, rapidity |
8. prodigious |
____ c. make easier, lighten |
9. expedite |
____ d. deep, intense |
10. celerity |
____ e. extraordinary, enormous |
Today's Idiom
ivory towerisolated from life; not in touch with life's problems Many artists have been said to be living in an ivory tower. Answers are on Page 315
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