Lesson #1 Vocabulary

Lesson #1 Vocabulary

Directions: Use the clues in each sentence to help you guess YOUR definition of each word and write it on the first line. After you guess we will discuss the actual definition.

1.  ABATE-v.

The speaker waited until the applause had abated before he continued speaking.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

2.  ACKNOWLEDGE-v.

The teacher acknowledged my mother in back to school night by shaking her hand.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

3.  AGENT-n.

Dwight Howard's agent will try to get him a better contract at the end of this season.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

4.  AUTHORITY-n.

Only the Congress of the United States has the authority to declare war.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

5.  DEVASTATE-v.

The corn crop this year has been devastated by the fact that there has been very little rain to help it grow.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

6.  EPIDEMIC-n.

The flu epidemic of 1918 spread so fast that it killed over twenty million people in the northern hemisphere.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

7.  ESTIMATE-n.

After the accident, my dad went to five repair shops to get estimates of how much it would cost to fix the car.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

8.  EVICT-v.

The landlord threatened to evict the tenants for not paying the rent.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

9.  IMPARTIAL-adj.

A judge should be impartial in the courtroom so that he could make good decisions.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

10.  INDUSTRIOUS-adj.

The more industrious workers in the clothing factory were rewarded with pay raises at the end of the year.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

11.  INFURIATE-v.

Cruelty to animals infuriates most people.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

12.  IRRELEVANT-adj.

Her comment about cats was irrelevant because we were discussing the family trip.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

13.  PRECISE-adj.

Do you know the precise time your plane will arrive so that I know what time to go to the airport to pick you up?

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

14.  SHAM-n.

Their offer to make us rich turned out to be a sham, so we felt like fools.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______

15.  TREK-n.

The hikers were exhausted after their thirty mile trek over the mountain.

Your Guess: ______

Actual Def.:______