Vocab Lesson 10: Sentences
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English Honors
Mrs. Guina
Vocab: Lesson 10
Sentences
English Honors
Mrs. Guina
Vocab: Lesson 10
Sentences
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- boycott
- The student union voted to _______ the intramural games because they felt that the underclass members had been ignored when the teams were chosen.
- babble
- Sitting in the theater near people who ________ constantly throughout the fild makes me so angry that I cannot enjoy the movie.
- solecisms
- Frank was not hired to be a guide through the museam because his spoken English was peppered with __________ .
- colossus
- When we finally finished the first draft of the class yearbook, we found that we had put together such a _______ amount of material that we had to start editing carefully.
- Achilles' heel
- My aunt had eight cats because her tenderness for stray animals was her __________ .
- boycott
- The powerful countries agreed to ________ trade with those countries whose politics they thought to be threatening
- Babbling
- _________ incoherently, the stranger at the door seemed ot be incredibly frightened by something out there in the dark.
- euthanasia
- The question of weather or not __________ for human beings is ethical has become a prominent issue in socitey
- colossal
- Paul Bunyan and Babe, his big blue ox, are among the most _________ figures in American folklore.
- flora and fauna
- The shipwrecked sailors spent many days exploring the island for edible ___________ because they had no idea when or if they would be rescued
- galvanized
- The football team was _________ into action by the cheering fans.
- titans
- The ________ of the sports world tried to agree on where and how they should build a new multi-sports arena.
- Achilles' heel
- Although Gerald was so good-looking and had such a resounding voice that he was cast as the juvenile lead in the play, we soon discovered that acting in front of an audience was his ___________ .
- laconic
- Generally, my father's ________ reply to my request to use the family car was, "No."
- flora and fauna
- The football team was _________ into action by the cheering fansq
- solecism
- Because of common usage, especially noticeable on TV programs, many _________ in the American language have been admitted as acceptable by grammarians.
- galvanized
- The student body was _________ into frenzied cheering when the home team beat the visitors by one point in the basketball tournament.
- euthanasia
- Medical leaders and religious leaders continue to debate about the ethical propriety of allowing _______ to be practiced on human beings.
- titan
- Is it possible that the Titanic was so named because it was built to be a ______ among the luxury liners of the day?
- laconic
- Because the lecturer was ________, the students found it easy to outline the mian topics of the lecture.