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No matter what the fashion in dress, the fashion in education is an extensive vocabulary. Keep up with the fashion; build your vocabulary wardrobe.

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. reserved, silent
  2. b. pass as genuine, pass off slyly
  3. c. disastrous, deadly
  4. d. smooth of speech
  5. e. one side or view of person or situation
  6. f. daring, boldness
  7. g. reply, answer
  8. h. uniform, same
  9. i. capable of being formed or shaped
  10. j. put off, delay
  11. k. make terms, surrender
  12. l. underhandedness, trickery
  13. m. not stated, understood, implied
  14. n. to mark with a disgrace
  15. o. inactive, dull, motionless
  16. p. general direction
  17. q. old-fashioned, outmoded
  18. r. easy to manage
  19. s. deceptive adroitness,* sleight of hand
  20. t. tease or torment by offering something good, but fail to deliver
  21. u. to be in a bad mood
  22. v. a dream about a wonderful future
  23. w. at any cost, any way at all
  24. x. to keep things as they are

REVIEW WORDS

  1. audacity __________
  2. capitulate __________
  3. chicanery __________
  4. docile __________
  5. facet __________
  6. fatal __________
  7. foist __________
  8. glib __________
  9. homogeneous __________
  10. legerdemain __________
  11. malleable __________
  12. passé __________
  13. procrastinate __________
  14. reticent __________
  15. retort __________
  16. stagnant __________
  17. stigmatize __________
  18. tacit __________
  19. tantalize __________
  20. trend __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. castles in the air __________
  2. to get up on the wrong side of the bed __________
  3. by hook or by crook __________
  4. to maintain the status quo __________

Take that extra few minutes now to master the few words you made errors with.

WORDSEARCH 38

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

TV—The Octopus

Is there anyone you know who can remember a time when there was no television? Perhaps a grandparent, but no one much younger is able to do so. At the beginning, only a handful of stations existed. Early programs imitated each other and tended to be (1)__________ . Some time later, there was the cable TV expansion and greater variety was available. The developing (2)__________ was for ever-larger numbers of programs dealing with information as well as entertainment.

The TV industry, never (3)__________ when it comes to expanding viewer interests, brought even more channels to the air, broadcasting 24 hours every day of the week. The objective was to (4)__________ special groups with programs directed to special tastes and interests. Soon channels devoted to games, to how to fix or make things, to romance dramas, to cartoons, etc., sprang into existence. It appears that every (5)__________ of a viewer’s interest is being addressed. As more and more channels come on the air, as the result of new technology, the variety is expanding beyond anything imagined by those who can recall the beginnings of this magical medium.

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