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LEVEL A, UNIT 14 VOCABULARY EXTRA CREDIT (optional)

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LEVEL A, UNIT 14 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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In Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story, a chemical potion _____ the good Dr. Jekyll into the evil Mr. Hyde.

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He enjoys _____ all the factors that enabled him to rise from poverty to great wealth, but he always omits the important element of luck.

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I didn't have time to write a letter to Lucy, but I _____ a few sentences to my sister's letter, expressing my congratulations.

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My trainer wants me to _____ from eating highly processed foods, especially those made with sugar and wheat.

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We cannot have a peaceful and just society so long as any one group is required to be _____ to another.

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When he felt low, he found that singing _____ his spirits.

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Each member of the basketball team was awarded a trophy to _____ the championship season.

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On the weekends, my parents are _____ , handing out lists of chores for all the children to do.

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Financiers are planning to _____ various businesses in the United States and England into one huge multinational corporation.

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Ms. Wilentz is the kind of manager who does not try to _____ cooperation from the people under her, but earns it by being a real leader.

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Isn't it a little _____ to suggest that the pollution of our environment is mainly caused by creatures from outer space?

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Nina is not very _____ to the idea of hiking up Mt. Kilimanjaro for her honeymoon.

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Experience has taught me that people who constantly boast about their unselfishness are often secretly quite _____ .

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After a complete makeover, the scruffy young man was _____ into a distinguished-looking gentleman.

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The detective's suspicion was aroused when the suspect's story failed to _____ with the known facts of the case.

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The mayor had to choose between _____ to his political party and his judgment of what was best for the city.

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The United States has a long history of providing _____ to those fleeing persecution abroad.

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If you look so _____ just because you can't go to the party, how are you going to react when something really bad happens?

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Unless the poor people of the country see some hope of improving their lives, there will probably soon be a great social _____ .

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The new hotel is spacious enough to _____ large groups of people attending conventions and banquets.

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Only seven members of the Security Council voted on the resolution; the others _____ .

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Instead of working so hard to prepare _____ of famous works of art, why don't you try to create something original?

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Because she sets extremely high standards for herself and is always pushing herself to do better, she is her own most severe _____ .

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It remains to be seen how _____ the students will be to the new method of teaching mathematics.

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To _____ Paul Bunyan's birthday, my uncle made flapjacks.

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:

At length, the two money-lenders obtained shelter in a house next door, and, being accommodated with a ladder, clambered over the wall of the back-yard—which was not a high one—and descended in safety on the other side.
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EXCERPT #1 Question: If a person is accommodated, he or she is _____ .

EXCERPT #2:

“To put him,” said Madame Mantalini, looking at Ralph, and prudently abstaining from the slightest glance at her husband, lest his many graces should induce her to falter in her resolution, “to put him upon a fixed allowance . . .”
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EXCERPT #2 Question: The act of abstaining involves _____ .

EXCERPT #3:

“John, why don't you say something?”
“Say summat?” repeated the Yorkshireman.
“Ay, and not sit there so silent and glum.”
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EXCERPT #3 Question: People who are glum are NOT _____ .

EXCERPT #4:

With such expressions of sorrow, Miss Petowker went on to enumerate the dear friends of her youthful days one by one, and to call upon such of them as were present to come and embrace her.
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EXCERPT #4 Question: To enumerate one's friends, one _____ .

EXCERPT #5:
“The ties of nature are strong. The weak husband and the father—the father that is yet to be relents. I apologize.”
“Humbly and submissively?” said Nicholas.
“Humbly and submissively,” returned the tragedian, scowling upwards.
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EXCERPT #5 Question: An apology made submissively is made _____ .

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. (6 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
PASSAGE:

Most American pop music can trace its roots to folk music from many cultures. Zydeco music amalgamates aspects of French, Native American, German, African, and Caribbean musical styles into a unique new whole. It emerged in Southwest Louisiana as a separate style in the 1940s, but it owes much to the Creole and Cajun music that came hundreds of years earlier.

Creoles are French-speaking blacks from Louisiana. Creole music was played on fiddle and accordion. Cajuns descended from French settlers —the Acadians—who came to Canada in the 1600s. These pioneers sang old French folk music. When the British forced the Acadians out of Canada in 1755, many moved to Louisiana. Cajuns, as they became known, settled in the swampy delta. They eked out meager lives fishing and logging.

Clifton Chenier, the late King of Zydeco, coined the term zydeco. Les haricots, pronounced “lay-zariko,” is the French word for green beans. An old French saying, “Les haricots sont pas salées” (the beans aren’t salty), referred to times when people were so poor they even had to abstain from using salt pork to flavor their beans. Circumstances may have been difficult, but the mood certainly wasn’t glum! Families would gather for a “La La” (house dance) to celebrate a harvest, a wedding, or any other event. One couldn’t help but be responsive to the peppy music played on spoons, fiddles, accordions, washboards, animal bones, and triangles. Adults and children danced and celebrated long into the night.

Zydeco accommodates old Cajun and Creole dance tunes and homey instruments, but was transformed by the post-World War II elements of rhythm and blues. Chenier introduced the use of drums and guitars. Zydeco now borrows from country-western, disco, hip-hop, and reggae. Lyrics now include English along with, or instead of, French. As Zydeco musicians say, “Le bons temps roulez,” or “Let the good times roll!”
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The meaning of amalgamates is _____ .

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To abstain from is best defined as to _____ .

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Glum most nearly means _____ .

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The meaning of responsive is _____ .

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Accommodates is best defined as _____ .

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Transformed most nearly means _____ .

CORRECTING ERRORS

DIRECTIONS:
1. Read each sentence and determine if the bold portion could be written better.
2. Select the answer that best completes each question. (6 points)
*You may only select one option for your answer.
PASSAGE:

Crows and ravens are both members of the corvid family, but the differences between these species outweigh the similarities. As is often the case, the birds' scientific names point to some significant features of appearance and behavior. When compared with a raven, the American crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos, has a short, narrow beak—a contrast highlighted with the crow's species name, derived from two Greek words: brachys, meaning “short,” and rhynchos, meaning “bill.” The raven's scientific name, Corvus corax, highlights their distinctive, deep croak, which is quite different from the crow's higher-pitched caw; corax comes from Greek korax, meaning “croaker.”

There's several other ways to tell crows apart from ravens on the basis of appearance. Size is one of the easiest: Whereas ravens are large birds, often weighing more than 2.5 pounds (a little more than 1kg), crows usually weigh less than a pound. The beak of a raven is far more prominent than a crow. Ravens also have diamondor wedge-shaped tails, in contrast with the fan shape of a crow's tail. Not surprisingly for larger birds, ravens have broad wings with a span exceeding 4.5 feet, a crow's wingspan is typically about 3 feet.
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Bold Section #6

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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Someone who uses his or her power to make people work very hard is a(n) _____ .

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Which of the following words is the opposite of disconnect?

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Which of the following is another word for alter?

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A person whose life is undergoing dramatic changes is in a state of _____ .

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Someone who is interested only in getting attention for himself or herself might be described as _____ .

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Which of the following is another word for blackmail?

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A model of the White House might be called a(n) _____ .

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Which of the following is the opposite of defiant?

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To name one by one is to _____ .

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A place of refuge or protection is a(n) _____ .

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:

The situation I am about to describe may seem far-fetched, but it did actually happen to me. Earlier this month, my two best friends decided to run against each other in a mock presidential campaign. Of course, now that the campaign is under way, they both try to listen to and accommodate students who have proposals for improving people’s lives, and they do their best to be responsive to all kinds of concerns and problems that the “voters” bring up. I don’t think that either of them has a solution for my own problem, however. As a result, I have had to come up with one of my own. I have decided that on Election Day, I will simply abstain. That way, when the votes are tallied and a winner is declared, I’ll feel happy because one friend won and glum because another lost, and I won’t have to feel that I was disloyal to either one.
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Which of the following could not be used to replace far-fetched (line 1)?

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To accommodate (line 3) is to _____ .

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

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Someone who abstains (line 6) during an election _____ .

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When votes are tallied (line 7), they are _____ .

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In line 7, glum 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:

Memorial Day is a day at the end of May that commemorates Americans who gave their lives for their country. The tradition that led to the holiday began during the mid-1860s, when people in various towns laid flowers on graves and flew flags at half-mast as a way of exalting hometown soldiers who had served and died in the Civil War. Two years later, in 1868, May 30 was declared as day to honor fallen Civil War soldiers by
Major General John A. Logan, the head of a large veterans’ group. Still later, in 1971, Memorial Day was made a federal holiday that amalgamated the country’s tributes to those who had died in five different wars: the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. Of course, as the United States became involved in other wars and conflicts since that time, the holiday came to honor the allegiance and sacrifice of those who died in them as well.
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Which of the following words could be used to replace commemorates (line 1)?

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In line 3, exalting means _____ .

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Which of the following could not be used to replace amalgamated (line 6)?

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In line 9, allegiance means _____ .