Tag: Vocabulary Power Plus for College and Career Readiness – Level 2, 9781620191439

Related Words

A

E

D

C

Deep>

destitute

erudite

austere

unkempt

inane

Crossword Puzzle

Across
1. Emulate
6. contrite
10. unctuous
12. destitute
15. effigy
16. ambivalent
17. glib
18. intrep>Down
2. Extrovert
3. Imp>4. Concur
5. Austere
7. erudite
8. collaborate
9. journeyman
11. demagogue
13. belie
14. sere

Subject Promp>

TH: Schools should not mandate foreign language fluency, but programs should strongly encourage it, as foreign language fluency encourages linguistic skills and multiculturalism, as well as generally opening doors for students’ future careers.

Writing

I think both phrases are completely compatible; most of our lives, we are operating off habit and impulse, which direct our conduct without our own conscious thought.

Words in Context

expound, cajoled, inscrutable, acrimony, exulted, harry, fluctuate

métier, dour, lethargy, fiasco, balk, omniscient, feasible, incognito

Imp>

D

G

B

Sentence Comp>

making a certain diagnosis.

lazy.

a lot of drinking afterwards.

your thesis.

a disastrous building collapse.

climbing on them, and pulling on their hair.

tie your food up where bears can’t get to it.

90% of the donated funds went to the pockets of the organization’s CEO, not the cause it claimed to support.

coming down with a fever.

the escaped inmate had been assisted by a guard.

winning the race.

suffered a head injury, and his personality has been sour since then.

an author.

let her son go to art school.

hid behind a decorative shrub.

Words in Context

extrovert, abhorred, duplicity, effigies, gamut

abated, austere, droll, decorum, doled

propagated, protean, journeymen, belied, glib

Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

A. before the war
B. full of war
C. farming related
D. waging war
E. before the room
F. study of farming

comes before another.

farming.

agrarian
agorap>agrimony
agricultural
antechamber
antecessor

Inference

conditions were extremely harsh.

bite you.

had been taking money from her purse.

Sentence Comp>

the zookeepers started putting them in separate cages.

he was feasting while they had no bread to eat.

work at any station on the production line.

were able to stop working overtime.

arrested the wanted man.

rations to his surviving crewmembers.

his ticket sales to skyrocket.

transform into any organ the patient needs.

move to warmer territory.

a six-year-old child to an eighty-year-old man.

she was cheating on him.

invited them over.

confused world war one and two.

got into a physical fight.

his unexpected absence.

Critical Reading

D

E

A

A

Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

A. having some characteristics of time
B. breaking as a result of
C. cap>D. ordered by time
E. story of time
F. break back

there were no telephones in Caesar’s time.

broken up.

fraction
fracture
fragment
chronicle
chronology
synchronize

Inference

go near the pigpen.

had trouble keeping track of how far they’d moved.

enlist the help of artists.

Critical Reading

B

D

C

D

Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

A. the ruling characteristics of a p>B. send across
C. rule by the p>D. study of p>E. rule by one
F. send again

rule by skill.

rule by few.

architecture
archeology
anarchy
democrat
democracy
demagogue
transmit
admit
p>omit
mislead
mistreat
admission
technocrat
bureaucrat
aristocrat

someone against government.

Inference

bring snacks to study sessions.

its food was subpar.

take him to the vet.