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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. a. agitation, turmoil, uproar
  2. b. attending, accompanying
  3. c. abnormality, irregularity
  4. d. cautious, wise
  5. e. protest, differ, disagree
  6. f. rough, harsh, shrill
  7. g. multiply, spread, produce
  8. h. lack of faith, dissent, unbelief
  9. i. morally required
  10. j. power to produce an effect
  11. k. setting, environment
  12. l. counterfeit, false, specious*
  13. m. judge
  14. n. harmful, bad
  15. o. superabundance, excess
  16. p. enthusiastic, passionate, intense
  17. q. decreased, weakened, thinned
  18. r. mild, innocent, harmless
  19. s. fatigue, weariness
  20. t. seeming, pretended, outward
  21. u. to be discharged or fired
  22. v. making no sense
  23. w. final or last
  24. x. to disregard or ignore

REVIEW WORDS

  1. anomaly __________
  2. arbiter __________
  3. attenuated __________
  4. concomitant __________
  5. deleterious __________
  6. dissent __________
  7. efficacy __________
  8. ferment __________
  9. fervid __________
  10. heresy __________
  11. incumbent __________
  12. innocuous __________
  13. lassitude __________
  14. milieu __________
  15. ostensible __________
  16. propagate __________
  17. prudent __________
  18. spurious __________
  19. strident __________
  20. surfeit __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. cold shoulder __________
  2. swan song __________
  3. to get the sack __________
  4. without rhyme or reason __________

Get to work learning the words that gave you trouble.

WORDSEARCH 31

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

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 (1)__________ 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 (2)__________ way to predict long life, a study done in England measured “life lines” of 100 corpses and came up with (3)__________ 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 (4)__________ 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 (5)__________ of length of life, not the reverse, say scientists.

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