Tenth Grade Week 14
1. The bad performance elicited ______from the audience members. They laughed at the actor who kept forgetting his lines.
2. I must be a(n) ______. My parents are too weird to be my real parents.
3. Elizabeth’s heart was torn ______when Fred broke up with her. She felt it being ripped in two.
4. It is not a good idea to ______illness and miss work. It is an even worse idea to post on social medial that you are faking illness and skiing instead of working.
5. It’s a common mistake for people to ______the h and the e when writing the word the.
6. In many parts of the county, a robin is a(n) ______of spring. It’s the first sign that good weather is on its way.
7. Bob was ______by the tree that had fallen down in our path. His car could go nowhere with the pine tree going across the road.
8. The defense lawyer introduced so much evidence that the trial became bogged down in a(n) ______of irrelevant information.
9. “I find you to be a(n) ______person,” yelled Nancy. “You disgust me!”
10. Doing vocabulary worksheets is ______. They are long and boring (but that doesn’t mean they don’t serve a purpose).
Directions: Choose three of the words from the word list. Discuss your thoughts on what happened to Boxer in chapter 9.
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Match the letter of the definition with the correct word
1. _____ feign a. a child raised by others
2. _____ tedious b. ridicule, mock
3. _____ changeling c. a sign of what’s to come
4. _____ asunder d. reverse the order of
5. _____ derision e. divided, split, apart
6. _____ surfeit f. revolting, disgusting, awful
7. _____ harbinger g. mind-numbing, wearisome
8. _____ transpose h. impede, get in the way of
9. _____ vile i. an excessive amount
10. _____ hinder j. pretend or fake