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Wordsearch 37
Using the clues listed below, fill in each blank in the following story with one of the new words you learned this week.
Make My Ostrich Burger Well Done
Just about 100 years ago, there arose an industry in the state of Arizona that seems very odd to us today. We know of cattle ranches and sheep ranches, but would you believe . . . ostrich ranches? This 
__________ business became popular as women found ostrich feathers a 
__________ addition to their wardrobes.
Ostriches are easy to raise. They eat and drink less than cattle, and their eggs are large enough to feed ten people!
During the 
__________ days of ostrich ranching, feathers were sold for as much as $300 a pound, so it is easy to see why that business was so attractive.
However, women's fashions changed after World War I, and the market for ostrich plumes fell. Growers had to 
__________ a shrinking market. The price tumbled to about $10 for a bird. As ostrich feathers became 
__________ in the fashion world, ostrich ranching came to an end.
Interestingly enough, ostrich ranchers may be coming back into vogue because nutritionists tell us that ostrich meat is low in cholesterol. We may not go wild over the feathers, but pass the lean meat, please. Hold the mayo, too.
Clues
3rd Day
2nd Day
2nd Day
1st Day
2nd Day
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38th Week
1st Day
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glib |
homogenous |
malleable |
legerdemain |
trend |
glib |
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The Enigma* of Fashion
Of all the pressures young people face, the most pernicious* is that of fashion. By this is meant the current vogue* in dress. The teenagers, who are so glib when they speak of "individuality," are turned into a homogeneous mass by the latest craze in fashion. How can youngsters who vehemently* resist advice from the older generation become so malleable in the hands of those who "make" fashion? Perhaps the sudden shifts in fashion occur fortuitously*. Or is there some group who, through legerdemain, switches styles and customs on us right before our eyes? Today's teenagers seem to be quite gullible* when it comes to embracing the latest trend in fashions. But then, they have their elders as sage* examples to follow.
Sample Sentences
Insert the new words in these sentences.
1.The charlatan* was able to wheedle* money out of the naïve* audience with a __________ talk on the medicine that would expunge* pain.
2.They could not follow the __________ of his ideas, but his verbal dexterity* galvanized* the gullible* listeners.
3.They were engrossed* as an ill man was "cured" before their eyes; some of the more urbane* said it was __________.
4.He ingratiated* himself into their confidence, and the __________ crowd was shaped into a subjugated* mass.
5.While they started out as individuals, they became a __________ group whom he could motivate as he willed.
Definitions
Match the new words with their definitions.
6. glib |
____ a. capable of being shaped or formed |
7. homogenous |
____ b. sleight of hand, deceptive adroitness* |
8. malleable |
____ c. smooth of speech |
9. legerdemain |
____ d. same or uniform |
10. trend |
____ e. general direction |
Today's Idiom
by hook or by crookany way at all, at any cost
He had bought the white elephant* without rhyme or reason*; now he had to get rid of it by hook or by crook.
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2nd Day
New Words
stagnant |
fatal |
passé |
procrastinate |
facet |
fas′ it
The Economics of Fashion
In dress, the fashion appears to be "set" by a few foreign designers and a handful of affluent* individuals who purchase these designs. The fashion industry is cognizant* of the fact that fashions must change rapidly and often or their economy would become stagnant. For this industry it would prove fatal if it were not vigilant* and prepared well in advance for a new fashion trend.* As the old fashion becomes passé and a new fashion seems to be in the making, the garment manufacturers cannot afford to procrastinate. They rush large sums of money into production for a mass market. Having invested heavily, the manufacturers do everything possible to influence and motivate* the purchasers. Through every facet of publicity and advertising the industry exploits* the natural desire for people to be au courant* with the latest fashions.
Sample Sentences
Insert the new words in these sentences.
1.To the consternation* of the distraught* parents they learned their son was accused of using the lethal* weapon on that
__________ occasion.
2.We wish for halcyon* days when the warlike solutions will have become __________.
3.Edna recalled with nostalgia* many __________ of her school days.
4.We all tend to __________ when faced with an unsavory* task.
5.The iconoclast* has the propensity* for reproaching* those who feel complacent* with leading a __________ existence. Definitions
Match the new words with their definitions.
6. stagnant |
____ a. delay, put off |
7. fatal |
____ b. motionless, dull, inactive |
8. passé |
____ c. deadly, disastrous |
9. procrastinate |
____ d. one side or view of person or situation |
10. facet |
____ e. outmoded, old-fashioned |
Today's Idiom
to get up on the wrong side of the bedto be in a bad mood
When his mother raised Cain* about his slovenly* room, he accused her of getting up on the wrong side of the bed. Answers are on Page 317
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