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DEFINITIONS

  1. a. absolute ruler
  2. b. hateful, despicable
  3. c. secret group of plotters
  4. d. actor
  5. e. disordered in behavior
  6. f. defamed one’s character
  7. g. a controversial argument
  8. h. able to speak clearly
  9. i. able to know beforehand
  10. j. greatness of character, magnificence
  11. k. word for word
  12. l. worn out
  13. m. a system of control
  14. n. to impose something painful
  15. o. deadlock
  16. p. a daydream
  17. q. subject to death
  18. r. the right to vote
  19. s. sorrowful
  20. t. trickery, deceit
  21. u. a waste of time
  22. v. to spoil a good deal
  23. w. to pursue a selfish aim
  24. x. to run for office

REVIEW WORDS

  1. articulate __________
  2. cabal __________
  3. denigrated __________
  4. despot __________
  5. dolorous __________
  6. enervated __________
  7. grandeur __________
  8. guile __________
  9. impasse __________
  10. inflicted __________
  11. mortal __________
  12. odious __________
  13. pathological __________
  14. polemic __________
  15. prescient __________
  16. regimen __________
  17. reverie __________
  18. suffrage __________
  19. thespian __________
  20. verbatim __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. an axe to grind __________
  2. to carry coals to Newcastle __________
  3. to throw one’s hat in the ring __________
  4. to kill the goose that laid the golden egg __________

Study the words you missed.

WORDSEARCH B

Using the clues listed below, fill in each blank in the following story with one of the new words you learned this week.

Clues
  1. 3rd Day
  2. 1st Day
  3. 1st Day
  4. 4th Day
  5. 2nd Day

Perks Are In

Do you know what a “perk” is? Simply put, it’s an extra reward, a special benefit given to sweeten the job for an employee. Now an (1)__________ staffer at Serus, a software maker in California’s Silicon Valley, has skillfully described an incredible perk given to him and his fellow workers—a thrill-packed parachute plunge as they jumped from a plane 14,000 feet above the ground.

“Our employees work hard and can become (2)__________ ,” said a Serus executive, “and we want to invigorate them with sky dives, as well as cruises, beauty treatments at spas, birthday parties, maid services, and other creative perks that our (3)__________ might conjure up.”

Of course, company executives are deeply interested in keeping productive staff members from quitting and going to work for competitors. And so, the host of perks they offer reflect the (4)__________ behind their generosity. “Cash bonuses won’t have the same effect,” a CEO said. In a (5)__________ remark he declared, “It’s like a parent who throws money at his child when what the youngster really wants is attention.”

SENTENCE COMPLETIONS (From Weeks A and B)

Each sentence below has two blanks, indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five sets of words labeled A through E. Choose the set of words that, when inserted, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

  1. The ________ dictator used ________ to achieve his goals.
    • a. rapacious...guile
    • b. articulate...protocol
    • c. odious...regimen
    • d. dilatory...ramifications
    • e. prescient...polemics
  2. Having overcome the ________ ________, the executive had high hopes for the future.
    • a. specious...cabal
    • b. circuitous...knells
    • c. dolorous...forebodings
    • d. mortal...reverie
    • e. toxic...insurgents
  3. The ________ ________ fled the country with the millions he had stolen from the treasury.
    • a. impregnable...neophyte
    • b. pathological...despot
    • c. dilatory...miscreant
    • d. risible...insurgent
    • e. articulate...patriarch
  4. The ________ circumstances were clearly explained by the play’s ________ .
    • a. extenuating...denouement
    • b. prescient...knell
    • c. macabre...forebodings
    • d. circuitous...protocol
    • e. odious...polemic
  5. “We have had a ________ of ________ tactics,” the judge declared, “and I will not put up with it.”
    • a. regimen...toxic
    • b. glut...dilatory
    • c. cabal...odious
    • d. grandeur...verbatim
    • e. impasse...suffrage

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