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5th Day Review

No matter what the theme, no matter what the source, we can expect that important concepts will require a mature vocabulary. This week's topic, scientific and biographical in nature, serves as a vehicle for teaching you twenty worthwhile words. You now have the chance to see whether you remember their definitions. Write the letter that stands for the definition in the appropriate answer space.

Review Words	Definitions
____ 1. cryptic	a. ask urgently
____ 2. curtail	b. undeniable
____ 3. emit	c. guess
____ 4. eventuate	d. accomplished by secret
____ 5. haven	e. to put down
____ 6. importune	f. favorable
____ 7. inchoate	g. cut short
____ 8. incontrovertible	h. workable
____ 9. incredulous	i. underground
____ 10. jeopardize	j. final
____ 11. permeate	k. to result finally
____ 12. premise	l. to spread through
____ 13. propitious	m. conquer
____ 14. repress	n. place of safety
____ 15. subjugate	o. endanger
____ 16. subterranean	p. a proposition for argument
____ 17. surmise	q. skeptical

____ 18. surreptitious	r. in an early stage
____ 19. ultimate	s. puzzling
____ 20. viable	t. to give off

Idioms
____ 21. take the bull by the horns	u. to maintain interest
____ 22. the lion's share	v. from bad to worse
____ 23. out of the frying pan into the fire	w. the major portion
____ 24. keep the pot boiling	x. to face a problem directly

Now check your answers on page 309. Make a record of those words you missed.

Words for Further Study	Meanings
1. _______________	_______________
2. _______________	_______________
3. _______________	_______________
4. _______________	_______________
5. _______________	_______________
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Wordsearch 13

Using the clues listed below, fill in each blank in the following story with one of the new words you learned this week.

Drug Smugglers Beware

The __________ message came to Officer Matt Jagusak: "Drug search tomorrowbring pig."

Jagusak, with the Union County New Jersey Sheriff's Department Search and Rescue Unit, had to __________

his superiors to put Ferris E. Lucas, a super sniffer, to work. Lucas is a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig with a fantastic

olfactory sense that is one million times greater than a human's and could be our __________ weapon in breaking up the drug trade.

A canine trainer offered the pig to Union City, suggesting that its intelligence and unique skill will make Lucas a __________ fighter against illegal narcotics. Jagusak has already taught his 55-pound porker-detective how to

find cocaine, hashish, and marijuana. While some law enforcement officials were __________ at first, they quickly became believers when they saw the Sherlock Holmes of the sty locate underground drug scents that had eluded trained dogs.

"I don't care if it's a dog, a pig, or an elephant," Jagusak's boss said. "If it benefits the department and our community, we'll try it."

Clues

4th Day

1st Day

2nd Day

2nd Day

3rd Day

Answers are on Page 309

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14th Week

1st Day

New Words

aspire

inveigh

nettle

overt

relegate

net′l

Sunday Morning at Pearl Harbor

At breakfast time on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Dorie Miller was serving coffee aboard the battleship West Virginia. Dorie was black, and the highest job to which he could then aspire in the U.S. Navy was that of messman. While Dorie was technically a member of a great fighting fleet, he was not expected to fight. Most Army and Navy officers inveighed against blacks as fighting men. Although blacks were nettled by such overt prejudice, Dorie Miller apparently accepted being relegated to the role of a messhall servant. Now, as he poured the coffee, Dorie was wondering why the airplanes above were making so much noise on a peaceful Sunday morning.

Sample Sentences

Use the new words in the proper blanks.

1.Although the comic's quips* seemed to be mild, they began to __________ the nightclub's owner.

2.I had a premonition* that Eli would __________ to the position of captain.

3.The pickets agreed to __________ against the law that curtailed* their freedom.

4.__________ acts of violence by the prisoner jeopardized* his parole.

5.When they tried to __________ the star to a minor role she was furious.

Definitions

Match the new words with their meanings.

6. aspire	____ a. irritate
7. inveigh	____ b. open
8. nettle	____ c. assign to an inferior position
9. overt	____ d. to strive for
10. relegate	____ e. attack verbally

Today's Idiom

to bury the hatchetto make peace

After not speaking to each other for a year, they decided to bury the hatchet.

Answers are on Page 309

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