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While it is true that scientists have had remarkable success in teaching chimpanzees to communicate, we can be certain that even super-monkeys would have difficulty with any of the words below. However, higher animals who apply themselves can master all of them.

Match the twenty words with their meanings. *Reminder: Record answers on a sheet of paper.
(Note the similarity between numbers 8 and 9.)

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. not related to the subject
  2. b. thin covering
  3. c. fruitless, failing
  4. d. natural
  5. e. polished, civilized
  6. f. to make fit, adjust to
  7. g. on the spur of the moment
  8. h. move in a lively manner
  9. i. to desire
  10. j. instrument for measuring change
  11. k. winding
  12. l. inborn
  13. m. believe, to judge
  14. n. going from place to place
  15. o. a fan, follower, enthusiast
  16. p. travel (n.)
  17. q. relating to marriage, connubial*
  18. r. countless number
  19. s. to change
  20. t. lying hidden
  21. u. pretend not to see
  22. v. just in time
  23. w. to irritate
  24. x. not confined or in jail

REVIEW WORDS

  1. abortive __________
  2. accommodate __________
  3. barometer __________
  4. buff (n.) __________
  5. conjugal __________
  6. crave __________
  7. deem __________
  8. inherent __________
  9. innate __________
  10. irrelevant __________
  11. itinerant __________
  12. latent __________
  13. modify __________
  14. myriad __________
  15. peregrination __________
  16. romp __________
  17. spontaneous __________
  18. tortuous __________
  19. urbane __________
  20. veneer __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. under the wire __________
  2. to be at large __________
  3. go against the grain __________
  4. wink at __________

Make a record of those words you missed.

WORDSEARCH 18

Using the clues listed below, record separately using one of the new words you learned this week for each blank in the following story.

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

A Shameful Situation

The plight of the migrant farm worker continues to frustrate the U.S. Labor Department, court officials, legislators, religious groups, and community agencies. Men, women, and children toil six and seven days a week to earn as little as $50 to $60 a week after being overcharged for their food, medicine, and basic living needs. They are housed in ramshackle dormitories, often with non-functioning toilets—a (1)__________ of their employers’ contempt for them; they lack hot water and showers, and are given food that is barely fit for human consumption.

Unscrupulous contractors scour the countryside in search of homeless, (2)__________ , and unemployed men and women, offering to put them to work at good jobs picking fruits and vegetables. The U.S. Labor Department investigates the (3)__________ of complaints of abused workers, issues fines, and revokes the licenses of contractors. But many such shady employers pay the fines (which they (4)__________ to be operating expenses) and continue to run company stores that cheat the workers, subjugate them with drugs and alcohol, (5)__________ them with advances on their paltry wages at high interest, and use violence against those whom they regard as troublemakers.

Fred Jones, a typical migratory worker from South Carolina, claims to have worked for $6 cash out of his $158 check. His story is repeated by hundreds of others who have been treated shabbily by corrupt contractors. Until sufficient funds are allocated by state and federal agencies, and until there is the proper public response, these abuses will continue.

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