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

Writing

Alice Walker argues that large amounts of people willingly and regularly consume television media that belittles their intelligence, but I believe just as many consume television with the intention of elevating their intelligence.

English Practice

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Words in Context

connoisseur, cult, officious,dilettante, nuances, credence

torpor, condone, enigma, jaunty

enthralled, fetid, genteel, venal, collate

Sentence Comp>

the overflowing trash can.

he pulled a rabbit out of his hat.

he woke up Friday morning.

whatever their leader asks them to.

take a class to deepen her knowledge of them.

resolved to bid more than anyone else at the auction.

an apple pie and an apple galette.

allowed them to see their loved ones.

a lack of sleep.

find the children before sundown.

they misbehave.

stop telling her about her social life.

the public was unimpressed by their paltry charity donation.

the missing painting.

submitting it for grading.

Inferences

meticulous

proclivity

conflates

rote

restive

Related Words

B

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Words in Context

ascribe, rote, proclivity, ardor, occlude

Sentence Comp>

go bungee jumping.

sit somewhere else, so she could see it.

it will weigh them down.

England infringing upon the relative independence the colonies had grown used to.

make an impartial decision.

spotless.

of my personal information.

accept any alternate readings of the text.

groaned.

Deep>

divulged

dogmatic

disabused

emaciated

subservient

Sentence Comp>

convinced the city to change the law.

learning a new language.

unlocking the vault.

be very nervous.

reminding me it was a beautiful day outside.

grow their own produce.

Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

A. wishing or intending harm
B. foul sp>C. someone who does things that are morally wrong
D. wishing or intending good or benefit
E. kind sp>F. someone who does good

benign or malignant

benefit
beneficial
malice
maladap>malodorous

Crossword Puzzle

Across
1. Divulged
4. mercenary
7. docile
10. abet
12. avarice
14. maudlin
15. div>16. meticulous
17. restive
18. jettison

Down
2. Bastion
3. Castigate
5. ascribe
6. temerity
8. libation
9. extraneous
11. extradite
13. copious

Inference

keep them around in case he needs them later.

make them more interesting.

top secret.

Writing

Thesis: I disagree that happiness as an emotion or condition is imaginary, but I do think there is a discrepancy between what people think happiness is, and what it actually is.

Subject Promp>

The impulse of the strong to conquer the weak, rather on a national or personal scale, is not a constant throughout all of human history. For thousands of years, humans lived in relative peace in small hunter-gatherer tribes which were relatively egalitarian. Forces like imperialism, capitalism, and nationalism that are overwhelmingly present in the history taught in Western nations make it seem like these forces have been creating conflict all over the globe for all of history, but there are some parts of the world unaffected by these and thus unaffected by the impulse to conquer those weaker than them.

English Practice

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Words in Context

appease, chaos, jingoism, candid

bigot, tradition, augment, strident, negligence, expunged

privation, toilsome, despondent, protocol, redress

Words in Context

emaciated, ignominy, heresy, castigate, anathema

banter, gauche, libations, motley, docile