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4th Day
			New Words
restrictive	balk	blunt	nostalgia	rife
ri strik′ tiv	bôk	blunt

Disappointment and Dedication

When Prince Schubert asked for additional restrictive measures, the people began to balk. Speaking on radio, the young reformer explained the reasons for higher taxes and food rationing; he was blunt when he stated the need for personal sacrifices. Nevertheless, the resistance to reform was great, and nostalgia for the "good old days" of King Andre began to grow. The people admitted that graft and corruption had been rife under Andre, but at least "everybody got his slice of the pie." Although Prince Schubert was tempted to quit, he determined that he would help the people in spite of themselves.

Sample Sentences

Don't pass the buck*! Use the new words in the following sentences yourself.

1.The rebel's innate* hatred of __________ decrees led him to crave* freedom all the more.

2.A string of caustic* epithets* was directed at the recruit by his __________ sergeant.

3.Although the former farm girl pretended to be urbane*, a feeling of __________ always came over her when she heard country music.

4.Criticism of the author was __________ among the coterie* of intellectuals who used to praise him.

5.Jimmy was a lawbreaker, but he would __________ at the idea of carrying a lethal* weapon.

Definitions

Match the new words with their meanings.

6. restrictive	____ a. widespread
7. balk (v.)	____ b. plain spoken
8. blunt	____ c. to refuse to move
9. nostalgia	____ d. yearning for the past
10. rife	____ e. harsh, confining

Today's Idiom

behind the eight ballin trouble

Susan found herself behind the eight ball in chemistry when she failed to do the term project.

Answers are on Page 311

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5th Day Review

Ruritania is a mythical kingdom, impossible to find on a map and difficult to find in a dictionary. The words that you are about to review, however, are all legitimate, acceptable dictionary words.

Match the twenty words with their meanings. Write the letter that stands for the definition in the appropriate answer space.

Review Words	Definitions
____ 1. amnesty	a. revolution, overthrow
____ 2. balk	b. unrest, discord
____ 3. blunt	c. take apart, disassemble
____ 4. coup	d. lavish
____ 5. dismantle	e. to free from guilt
____ 6. exonerate	f. agree to finance
____ 7. expatriate	g. false, lying
____ 8. fiat	h. an exile
____ 9. legion	i. abnormal desire for power
____ 10. mendacious	j. plain spoken
____ 11. megalomania	k. harsh, confining
____ 12. nostalgia	l. to refuse to move
____ 13. parsimonious	m. wasteful
____ 14. pecuniary	n. an official order, a decree
____ 15. profligate	o. widespread
____ 16. restrictive	p. large number
____ 17. rife	q. financial
____ 18. strife	r. a general pardon
____ 19. sumptuous	s. miserly
____ 20. underwrite	t. yearning for the past

Idioms
____ 21. to play possum	u. someone profits from another's misfortune
____ 22. an ill wind	v. be fully acquainted with procedures
____ 23. know the ropes	w. in trouble
____ 24. behind the eight ball	x. try to fool someone

Now check your answers on page 311. Make a record of those words you missed.

Words for Further Study		Meanings
1. _______________	_______________
2. _______________	_______________
3. _______________	_______________
4. _______________	_______________
5. _______________	_______________
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Wordsearch 19

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

Ogopogo

Accounts of supersized creatures such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Abominable Snowman are

__________ . Despite the lack of hard evidence, some people continue to believe that the depths of our lakes and isolated mountain caves remain the dwelling places of fantasy figures.

Now, a new star for the credulous has surfaced. Japanese television was asked to __________ a search for Ogopogo, a long-necked reptilian creature said to inhabit Lake Okanagan in the mountains of south-central British

Columbia. Ogopogo stories are __________ in that area as people produce photos of rippling water and shadows resembling an enormous serpent with flippers, gliding slowly in large circles.

Those who __________ at what they regard as nonsense and pagan superstition are quite __________ in belittling Ogopogo fans. Nevertheless, the legends, which have a life of their own, happily, have brought thousands of tourists and business to the Okanagan Valley.

Recognition of the creature now exists in British Columbia's environmental law which provides protection for Ogopogo. The official description reads, ''An animal in Okanagan Lake, other than a sturgeon, that is more than three meters in length, and the mates or offspring of that animal."

Been wondering about the creature's name? Ogopogo comes from an English music hall song: "His mother was an earwig; his father was a whale; a little bit of head and hardly any tailand Ogopogo was his name."

Clues

1st Day

3rd Day

4th Day

4th Day

4th Day

Answers are on Page 311

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