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LEVEL C, UNIT 9 VOCABULARY EXTRA CREDIT (optional)

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LEVEL C, UNIT 9 VOCABULARY EXTRA CREDIT

COMPLETING THE SENTENCES

DIRECTIONS:
1. Identify the vocabulary word that best completes the sentence provided. (25 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
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Some great composers, including Mozart and Mendelssohn, were _____ musicians from a very early age, demonstrating an amazing talent for writing music.

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During the winter the wind usually blows from the north in that area, but during the summer southerly currents are _____ .

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After a horrible accident, the one-time celebrity lived his life as a _____ , permanently turning his back on public life.

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His plain clothing and quiet _____ were not what we expected in a famous Hollywood director.

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Why does she _____ people she barely knows with her arguments and strong opinions?

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The Declaration of Independence mentions a number of “unalienable rights” with which all people “are _____ by their Creator.”

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The college my sister attends is a small one, but it has gained a great deal of _____ for the quality of its faculty.

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The injured quarterback _____ at sitting on the bench while his team was being badly beaten on the field.

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Nature is kind to us in many ways, but we must learn that we cannot violate its laws with _____ .

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Although the child was terrified of shots, the skillful nurse _____ the weeping boy by singing a funny song.

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Do you understand how someone can live as a _____ even in the midst of a great city?

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The lecturer is a man who served ten years in prison and is now devoting his life to bringing about reforms in our _____ system.

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Yes, we are still friends, but not as close as we used to be; something has gone _____ in our relationship.

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Mosses and lichens — which can survive extremely cold temperatures — are _____ plants in the Arctic tundra.

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Marie is _____ to forget where she puts important things, such as her keys, wallet, and glasses.

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He claims to be a patriot, but his disregard for the powerless _____ the great ideals on which this nation was built.

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The message of a great work of literature may be as _____ today as it was when it was first written.

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My problem was to _____ off their unwelcome attentions without being openly insulting.

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As we use up the earth's fossil-fuel supplies, we are faced with an increasingly _____ need to develop new energy sources.

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I was so _____ by the way he asked for a loan that to my surprise I found myself giving him the money.

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When the featured singer failed to appear, the _____ fans demanded their money back.

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A team as determined as ours is will never _____ , even if it is losing badly in the final moments of a game.

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Alvin York performed such _____ on the battlefields of France that he was awarded this nation's highest honors.

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The rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution do not permit citizens to _____ on the rights of others.

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The starch in this shirt collar is _____ my neck.

VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT: LITERARY TEXT

DIRECTIONS:
1. Read the following excerpts that contain vocabulary words from this unit. The vocabulary words are written in bold font.
2. Select the answer that best completes each question. (5 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
EXCERPT #1:

But in speaking of the stage of the river today, at a given point, the captain was pretty apt to drop in a little remark about this being the first time he had seen the water so high or so low at that particular point for forty-nine years . . .
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EXCERPT #1 Question: If a person is apt to do something, he or she is _____ .

EXCERPT #2:

We had dinner on a ground-veranda over the water—the chief dish the renowned fish called the pompano, delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
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EXCERPT #2 Question: Food that is renowned is definitely NOT _____ .

EXCERPT #3:

The captain stood around a while in evident discomfort, and once or twice seemed about to make a suggestion; but the etiquette of the river taught him to avoid that sort of rashness, and so he managed to hold his peace. He chafed and puzzled a few minutes longer, then retired to his apartments.
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EXCERPT #3 Question: Whenever someone is chafed, he is _____ .

EXCERPT #4:

My friend told the medium that when his relative was in this poor world, he was endowed with an extraordinary intellect and an absolutely defectless memory . . .
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EXCERPT #4 Question: If something is endowed it is _____ .

EXCERPT #5:

A few more days swept swiftly by, and La Salle stood in the shadow of his confiscating cross, at the meeting of the waters from Delaware, and from Itaska, and from the mountain ranges close upon the Pacific, with the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, his task finished, his prodigy achieved.
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EXCERPT #5 Question: A prodigy is a _____ .

VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT: INFORMATIONAL TEXT

DIRECTIONS:
1. Read the following passage that contains vocabulary words from this unit. The vocabulary words are written in bold font.
2. Select the answer that best completes each question. (5 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
PASSAGE:

The great renown that Rosa Parks has earned as the “mother of the civil rights movement” often overwhelms this modest woman. She changed the course of American life; yet her simple refusal to capitulate to racism was unplanned. She explains that she was “just one of many who fought for freedom.”

On December 1, 1955, Parks took a city bus home from her job at a store in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. According to the segregation laws of the day, Parks, an African American, was required to sit in the back of the bus. She was accused of encroaching on the whites-only section, and the bus driver tried to convince her to obey the law. Instead, Parks kept both her dignified mien and her seat. At last, the driver warned her that he would send for the police. “Go ahead and call them,” Parks answered.

Rosa Parks was arrested, jailed, tried, convicted, and fined. She refused to pay. Her experience set off a 382-day boycott of Montgomery city buses. When her case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices declared the segregation of
Montgomery’s public transportation to be unconstitutional.

Rosa Parks’s courage inspired all those struggling for their civil rights, but her life was seriously disrupted. She was constantly harassed and received threats, some of them dire. In 1957, she and her husband moved to Detroit to escape persistent ill will. There she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, a school for teens, and continued her work for racial equality. In 1999, Rosa Parks was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor given by the American government.
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The meaning of renown is _____ .

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Capitulate most nearly means _____ .

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Encroaching is best defined as _____ .

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The meaning of mien is _____ .

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Dire most nearly means _____ .

IMPROVING SENTENCES

DIRECTIONS:
1. Read each sentence and determine if the underlined portion could be written better.
2. Select the answer that best completes each question. (5 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
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When the news came, Sally couldn't hardly believe that Gina had won the first prize.

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When the engine stalled, Mr. Choi had the presence of wit to maneuver the car to the shoulder of the road.

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Everyone should pick up their caps and gowns the day before the ceremony.

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There are brownies in the kitchen for whoever wants one.

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As they went into the final quarter with the Steelers ahead by ten points, as the Cowboys hoped to rally, they needed a touchdown and a field goal to tie the game.

PRACTICE APPLICATION

DIRECTIONS:
1. Select the answer that best completes each question. (10 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
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The strongest color in a painting could be referred to as _____ .

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To advance beyond the usual or proper limits is to _____ .

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Which of the following is another word for bestow?

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Someone who breaks a rule without fear of punishment does so with _____ .

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A team that is having a disastrous season could be said to be in what kind of situation?

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To make unclean or dirty is to _____ .

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Which of the following is the opposite of soothe?

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Which of the following would be used to describe a system having to do with legal punishment?

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Someone who lives a life withdrawn from the world is known as a _____ .

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Facts that are related to a matter that is under discussion can be described as _____ .

READING A PASSAGE #1

DIRECTIONS:
1. Read the following passage that contains vocabulary words from this unit. The vocabulary words are written in bold font.
2. Select the answer that best completes each question. (6 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
PASSAGE:

Dear Chris,
Thanks for filling in for me. I know that you have done plenty of babysitting. Since this is your first time watching over the Nelson twins, however, I thought that I should pass on the following tips:
1) Stay focused. No matter how much Ben and Noah try to bludgeon you with requests to stay up late, do not give in. Instead, try to keep them busy and entertained until bedtime.
2) Similarly, do not capitulate if the twins ask for ice cream or other treats just before dinner. In spite of their disgruntled comments and unhappy miens, they know very well that they are not supposed to snack at this time.
I think that’s it for now. I know that you can fend for yourself in pretty much any situation, but don’t hesitate to call or text me if anything goes awry. Good luck!
Stacy
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In sentence 5, bludgeon means to use _____ .

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In sentence 7, capitulate means _____ .

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Which of the following could be used to replace disgruntled (sentence 8)?

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Which of the following could not be used to replace miens (sentence 8)?

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To fend (sentence 10) means to _____ .

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In sentence 10, awry means _____ .

READING A PASSAGE #2

DIRECTIONS:
1. Read the following passage that contains vocabulary words from this unit. The vocabulary words are written in bold font.
2. Select the answer that best completes each question. (4 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
PASSAGE:

Some highly intelligent animals, including chimps and crows, have been known to use sticks as tools, but the residents of a zoo are not apt to pick up a paintbrush—or are they? In fact, at many zoos, chimpanzees, elephants, seals and other creatures have been encouraged to paint. Although the sight of an animal holding a paintbrush in its hand, trunk, or mouth may be disarming, the creatures have not been encouraged to paint in
order to entertain visitors. Instead, zookeepers have found that the activity helps the animals stay mentally active. An additional benefit has occurred when the some of the paintings are sold to help raise money for the zoos in which the animals live. Although the paintings may not bring in millions of dollars, as the works Pablo Picasso and other famous artists have, they do bring pleasure to many people. One four-legged prodigy, a Yucatan miniature pig, has even won enough renown to become known as a real “Pig-casso.”
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In line 2, apt means _____ .

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Which of the following could be used to replace disarming (line 4)?

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Which of the following words could not be used to replace prodigy (line 9)?

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To win renown (line 9) is to _____ .