GACS lclab - English 8 - Wordly Wise 3000 - Book 8, Lesson 17 - Applying the Meanings
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GACS lclab - English 8 - Wordly Wise 3000 - Book 8, Lesson 17 - Applying the Meanings
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GACS lclab Jr. High - English 8
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 accord | The members of the jury were in ___________when the vote as taken. |
| affirm | This official will ___________that the signature is mine. |
| bequeathed | Through his pamphlet "Common Sense", Thomas Paine ____________a concern for individual rights and freedom to future generations. |
| bequeathed | This stamp collection was ___________to me by my father. |
| bequest | The will contains a ___________of a thousand dollars to a friendly neighbor. |
| citadel | The old section of Quebec City is surrounded by walls and dominated by a ____________. |
| conferred | The surgeon ______________ with her colleague before deciding not to operate on the patient. |
| coup | Hiring violinist Itzhak Perlman for the festival was a ___________ for the music director. |
| coup | In 1952, a _______ in Egypt forced the king out of power and led the way to presidential leadership for that country. |
| dignitaries | ____________from the United Nations attended the White House dinner. |
| embroiled | The two countries were ____________in a bitter dispute over where the border between them lay. |
| epoch | The ___________known as the Cold War, a period of hostility without military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, began around 1945 and ended in 1991. |
| impeccable | The ballet dancer's _______________execution of a midair turn elicited cries of "Bravo!" from the audience. |
| instituted | The proprietor ________important changes in employee benefits when she bought the business. |
| Institute | Scholars at the ______________ for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, conduct research in mathemetics, physics, and historical and social sciences. |
| patriarchs | The Bedouins, nomadic desert tribes of Arabia, form extended families headed by ______________. |
| rapport | Successful speakers quickly establish a ______________with the audience. |
| renounced | We ________________meat eating when we became vegetarians. |
| renunciation | Acceptance into the monastery required the __________________of the use of alcoholic beverages. |
| rhetoric | We studied ________________to improve our debating skills. |
| rhetoric | Because it offered no practical solutions to inner-city housing problems, the mayor's speech was mere _______________. |
| A bequest is | something that is handed down. |
| A patriarch is | the male leader of a tribe. |
| An accord is | a formal agreement. |
| A dignitary is | one who holds a position of honor. |
| Rhetoric is | skill in the use of language. |
| A citadel is | a fortress. |
| A coup is | an action that brings about a striking change. |
| To confer an award is to | grant it. |
| An institute is | an organization to promote a particular cause. |
| To affirm something is | to declare it to be true. |
| rapport | The supervisor and the programmer had a good (feeling of emotional connection) with each other. |
| rhetoric | In 1981, Andreas Papandreou became prime minister of Greece by using (elaborate and ostentatious language) containing anti-Western ideas designed to appeal to voters. |
| coup | Before he was overthrown by Castro in 1959, the dictator Batista controlled Cuba as a result of the (seizure of government) he staged in 1952. |
| bequeathed | My grandmother (put in her will that she wished to leave) this gold locket to me. |
| conferred | The judges at the figure-skating competition (had a discussion) at great length before announcing the winner. |
| renounced | In 1936, King Edward VIII of England (gave up his right to) the throne in order to marry a divorced American, Mrs. Wallis Simpson. |
| embroiled | The United States did not officially become (caught up in the conflict) in World War II until after the Japanese attack on the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor in 1941. |
| instituted | The principal (set into motion) a policy that would discourage unnecessary absences at the high school. |
| impeccable | Her behavior was (free of any fault) while she was with me. |
| epoch | With the death of Stalin, leader of the USSR from 1924 to 1953, came the end of a(n) (period of time marked by a series of related events) in Russian history. |
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