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You can be sure of a balanced language if you are well acquainted with all the products (words) available in your supermarket (vocabulary).

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. suggest, hint
  2. b. surfeit,* excess, fullness
  3. c. coming of an important event
  4. d. having nourishing properties
  5. e. slogan, pet phrase
  6. f. correctness, suitability
  7. g. juicy
  8. h. mixture, medley
  9. i. mean, show, indicate
  10. j. to seek favor by flattery
  11. k. irreverent, lacking respect
  12. l. fake, counterfeit
  13. m. ratify, confirm
  14. n. rush, flood
  15. o. become dull, cease to please
  16. p. treacherous, sly, seductive
  17. q. certify, endorse
  18. r. inherent,* within itself
  19. s. offer for acceptance
  20. t. shrill, harsh
  21. u. a severe test
  22. v. a direction that leads nowhere
  23. w. a mess, trouble
  24. x. to control completely

REVIEW WORDS

  1. advent __________
  2. allude __________
  3. bogus __________
  4. curry __________
  5. denote __________
  6. impious __________
  7. insidious __________
  8. intrinsic __________
  9. nutritive __________
  10. pall __________
  11. potpourri __________
  12. proffer __________
  13. propriety __________
  14. raucous __________
  15. sanction __________
  16. satiety __________
  17. shibboleth __________
  18. spate __________
  19. substantiate __________
  20. succulent __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. to twist around one’s finger __________
  2. the acid test __________
  3. a pretty kettle of fish __________
  4. a blind alley __________

WORDSEARCH 41

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

Age Discrimination

One of the most (1)__________ forms of discrimination is that based upon age. We have become aware through publicity and education that bias and discrimination based upon race, color, creed, and sex are not to be accepted. Through laws passed by the Congress of the United States and by individual states, we agree that using these criteria for hiring, promoting, or firing in the workplace is a (2)__________ and undemocratic excuse. Many lawsuits have supported this most basic right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” protected by our Constitution.

Why is it, then, that so few question the (3)__________ of preventing those viewed as “too old” from getting positions, or, if already on the job, promotions? Advanced age also leads to the firing of such employees and their replacement with younger applicants. Is there something (4)__________ in youth that suggests that older workers cannot do the job as well? Until age discrimination goes the way of all of the other forms of prejudice, we may continue to (5)__________ the reasoning that “younger is better.”

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