Fought poorly by turning their thumbs down)

My father turned thumbs down on our plan to hitchhike to Florida during Easter.

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REVIEW

After reading about these new ideas, you should be inventive enough to handle this review. If

there is a necessity for it, you may turn back to the original lesson to check on the meaning of

a word. As someone once remarked, “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

Match the twenty words with their meanings. *Reminder: Record answers on a sheet of paper

REVIEW WORDS DEFINITIONS

1. affluent a. careless

2. chagrin b. dread, dismay

3. confidant(e) c. to chew

4. consternation d. complete failure

5. deride e. reaching maturity early

6. discern f. talkative

7. disparage g. practicable

8. dubious h. to make fun of

9. eschew i. contrary

10. feasible j. wealthy

11. fiasco k. keep away from

12. laudable l. recognize

13. masticate m. crush, stop

14. obsolescence n. to discredit

15. perfunctory o. person you tell your secrets to

16. perverse p. disappointment

17. precocious q. uncertain

18. quell r. commendable

19. sally s. sudden rushing forth

20. voluble t. process of wearing out

IDIOMS

21. I’m from Missouri u. occasion for rejoicing

22. red-letter day v. I have to be convinced

23. let sleeping dogs lie w. don’t rake up old grievances

24. thumbs down x. to signal rejection

Make a record of those words you missed. Study them, work on them, use them in original

sentences. Amaze your friends at parties!

*For reference only

WORDS FOR

FURTHER STUDY MEANINGS

1. _________________________ _________________________

2. _________________________ _________________________

3. _________________________ _________________________

WORDSEARCH 6

Using the clues listed below, record separately using one of the new words you learned this

week for each blank in the following story.

Clues

4th Day

1st Day

3rd Day

1st Day

3rd Day

Trouble at Truman High

It was a quiet morning at Harry S Truman High School. “Too quiet,” Principal Edna Suarez

remarked to her secretary. “It’s just when things are this serene that I start to get an uneasy

feeling.”

Mrs. Suarez’s sensitivity to life among 3,000 teenagers quickly proved to be accurate. The

first evidence of trouble came with a phone call from the teacher in charge of the cafeteria

who needed help to a disturbance. When Mrs. Suarez arrived on the scene, much to

her, students were pounding on their tables, throwing food on the lunchroom floor,

and making a complete of school regulations. It took the principal only a moment to

who the two ringleaders were and to summon them to her office.

Vincent, 16, and Elena, 15, admitted to having stirred up the protest. They gave as their

reasons the poor quality of food served and the dirty environment. “It’s like a pigsty down

there,” Elena declared, “and the food is fit only for animals!”

What they had done, Mrs. Suarez told them, was inexcusable, and she ticked off a list of

reasons that made their conduct dangerous and subject to school discipline. “What you were

trying to do,” Mrs. Suarez explained, “might be considered by some but you could

have come to me, alone or with a committee, to register your complaints. I would have

investigated and, if there was merit to your charges, would have taken the necessary action.

Now I’ll have to ask you to bring your parents to see me on Monday and to stay home until

then.”

Vincent and Elena seemed to be chastened by Mrs. Suarez’s lecture. However, on leaving her

office, Elena told an assistant principal that in a similar incident on a television show she

learned that direct, dramatic action usually gets quicker results than lengthy debate. He

advised her to bring that question up in her social studies class when she returned from

suspension.

N EW W ORDS

Implacable

im plā´ ke bəl

Paroxysm

par´ ək siz əm

Reprehensible

rep´ ri hen´ sə bəl

Jurisdiction

jür´ is dik´ shən

Skirmish

sker´ mish

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MUCH ADO ABOUT A HAIRCUT

Perhaps you read about our school in the newspapers? We were one of the first to have a

showdown on the topic of long hair for boys. Two honor students, Ron Harris and Len

Chester, were sent to the principal by their French teacher, an implacable foe of

nonconformists, who went into a paroxysm of anger when she spied the boys in the hall. At

first it seemed like a simple case. The school would reprimand* the boys for their

reprehensible appearance and order them to cut their hair or be suspended. But the boys’

parents decided that the school had overstepped its jurisdiction; they took their case to the

newspapers. What had started as a local skirmish now began to take on the appearance of a

full-scale war.

Sample Sentences Use the new words in the following sentences.

1. The detective was ________________ in his search for the murder weapon.

2. Saying that it was beyond his ________________, Judge Klein refused to rule on the

case.

3. In a ________________ of rage, the tenant stormed out of the landlord’s office.

4. The precocious* boy enjoyed an intellectual ________________ with his elders.

5. The brash* student was forced to apologize for her ________________ conduct.

Definitions Match the new words with their meanings.

6. implacable a. a fit, sudden outburst

7. paroxysm b. cannot be pacified, inexorable*

8. reprehensible c. small fight, brief encounter

9. jurisdiction d. worthy of blame

10. skirmish e. power, range of authority

T ODAY ’ S I DIOM

cause c é l è bre —a famous law case or controversy

It was a minor dispute, but the ambitious lawyer sought to turn it into a cause c é l è bre.

N EW W ORDS

Harass

har´ əs or hə rəs´

Monolithic

mä nə´ li thik

Arbitrary

är´ bə trer´ ē

Indigent

in´ də jənt

Fray

frā

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