Academic English 10. You have a right to learn! After reviewing the meaning and use of each word, write a sentence of your own. Be sure to use context.
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Vocabulary Unit 2Academic English 10
You have a right to learn!
After reviewing the meaning and use of each word, write a sentence of your own. Be sure to use context clues to reinforce the word’s meaning.
You have to write to learn!
(adj) really good at doing stuff with his/her hands
adroit
I admire __________________ because he/she is so adroit at _____________
(adj) friendly◦Amigo=friend
amicable
I have an amicable relationship with _____________; we have ______________.
(adj) extremely opposed or against
averse
(adj) likes to fight, combative
(n) someone involved in a war
belligerent
(adj) kind, giving-does things that are “bene”ficial for others
benevolent
Complete Sentences#5, 7, 12, 13 and 20
On page 29
(adj) quickly, not looking at the details enough
cursory
(n) deceitfulness◦Trying to “dupe” someone
◦“Duplicate” personas
duplicity
(v) to praise a great deal◦ “ex”claim about their greatness
extol
(adj) possible, able to be done◦ Easy-ible
feasible
(n) pained facial expression (v) to make a pained face
◦ Face caused by something “grim”
grimace
Complete on pages 29 and 30:1, 6, 9, 16 and 19
(n) large-scale destruction◦ “Costs” people a lot
holocaust
(adj) not affected or hurt by; admitting no entrance
impervious
(n) a moving force, impulse, stimulus
impetus
(n) danger◦Puts you in jeopardy of losing you life
jeopardy
(adj) extremely careful, particular about details
meticulous
Complete on pages 29 and 30
8,10,11,14 &17
(n) wanting to go back to the way things were, longing for something past
nostalgia
(n) purest form of something or the best example◦The very “essence” of it
quintessence
(v) to move backward, return to earlier condition◦“retro”-from a before period