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If you’ve ever watched or played baseball, you know how important a base hit is to each batter. Before the game players spend as much time as possible taking their batting practice. During the game the batter concentrates on every pitch. In the same way, each day you are getting in your “batting practice,” and the weekly review is your chance to build up your “batting average.” Collect new words with the same concentration that baseball players collect base hits.

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. show plainly, exhibit
  2. b. fleeting, passing, short-lived
  3. c. throw overboard, discard
  4. d. forceful, convincing, persuasive
  5. e. on the surface, slight
  6. f. a rough struggle
  7. g. compact, brief, concise
  8. h. reprimand, reproach, criticize
  9. i. inborn, natural, essential
  10. j. fashion
  11. k. main point, essence
  12. l. severe, keen, sharp
  13. m. lazy, indifferent
  14. n. negligent, careless
  15. o. unavoidable, certain, sure
  16. p. opposition, strong dislike
  17. q. foremost, supreme
  18. r. general, common, prevailing
  19. s. angry, antagonistic
  20. t. profitable
  21. u. on a very rare occasion
  22. v. postpone a decision
  23. w. take action at the right moment
  24. x. to make a fine distinction

REVIEW WORDS

  1. acute __________
  2. aversion __________
  3. cogent __________
  4. evince __________
  5. gist __________
  6. hostile __________
  7. inevitable __________
  8. intrinsic __________
  9. jettison __________
  10. lucrative __________
  11. paramount __________
  12. prevalent __________
  13. rebuke __________
  14. remiss __________
  15. superficial __________
  16. lethargic __________
  17. terse __________
  18. transient __________
  19. tussle __________
  20. vogue __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. to strike while the iron is hot __________
  2. to split hairs __________
  3. sleep on it __________
  4. once in a blue moon __________

Take that extra moment now to review and study the words you got wrong.

WORDSEARCH 26

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

The Wild West

History tells us that, in a showdown in 1881, a notorious outlaw, Billy the Kid, was killed. At least that is the (1)__________ belief. The real Billy the Kid, William Bonney, is believed to have escaped and lived for many years in Texas. In fact, a man named Brushy Bill Roberts claimed to be the grown-up Billy the Kid.

When Roberts died in 1950, there was the (2)__________ question about his true identity. As a result, a computer was brought in to test whether there was anything other than a (3)__________ resemblance between the two men. A photo of the Kid and a photo of Roberts were compared on the computer.

In a (4)__________ report from the computer technician, the identity of Roberts was proved to be different from that of the real Billy the Kid. Thus, computer analysis allows us to (5)__________ the idea that Billy the Kid survived the famous gun duel.

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