Complete the sentences by inferring information about the italicized word from its context.

If the mad doctor wants to try to animate the lifeless monster, then he or she wants to...

Using literal translations as guidance, define the following words without using a dictionary: A. incognito, B. cogitation, C. cognizant, D. carnivore, E. carnivorous, F. reincarnate.

Complete the sentence in a way that shows you understand the meaning of the italicized vocabulary word. You might alienate your friends if you...

Study the entries and answer the questions that follow.

The roots mater and matr mean "mother." The root micro means "small." The root meter means "measure." The root aut means "self."

Using literal translations as guidance, define the following words without using a dictionary.

A. alma mater

D. microprocessor

B. matron

E. micrometer

C. matrimony

F. automatic

Complete the sentence in a way that shows you understand the meaning of the italicized vocabulary word.

Janet bought a belated graduation gift for Mike because she...

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used.

delude edifice berserk ostentatious animate

The old Lane estate was a[n] ..... that towered over the other homes in the neighbourhood. It had a[n] ..... courtyard more suitable for a palace, and rows of shimmering Aspen trees seemed to ..... the grounds when they fluttered with even the mildest breeze. The elaborate exterior of the mansion might ..... someone into thinking that the house must be beautiful inside, but actually, the roof leaks, the paint is peeling, and the floors creak.

Improving Paragraphs

Read the following passage and then choose the best revision for the underlined portions of the paragraph. The questions will require you to make decisions regarding the revision of the reading selection. Some revisions are not of actual mistakes, but will improve the clarity of the writing.

We have tried in the $\underline{\text{proceeding}}$ chapters to understand a few of the laws of health and to apply them intelligently to our daily living. It will help us to clinch what we have already mastered, if we supplement our work with a knowledge of simple methods now of procedure in case of the more common and $\underline{\text{not as}}$ serious accidents and emergencies.

A. NO CHANGE

B. progressing

C. succeeding

D. preceding

Complete the sentence by inferring information about the italicized word from its context. The former teacher preferred to denigrate her students rather than...

Complete the sentence by inferring information about the italicized word from its context. If high tariffs on all goods embroil the colonists with the mother country, the colonists might...

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. lackey, denigrate, lament, humane, anachronism, nemesis, defunct. Old Carl knew that he was a[n] _____ amid the young programmers working in his office. Each time he struggled to send a simple e-mail, he _____ the death of the typewriter-and-telephone era in which he had spent most of his career. Bitter that the end of his own usefulness approached, Carl often _____ the young programmers for having no concept of how to use their own brains-not calculators-to solve equations or analyze data. Technology had become the programmers' _____, he felt, and had turned him into a dinosaur. Sometimes the young manager and his _____ mused at Carl's outdated experience with punch cards and mainframes, and it fueled Carl's resentment. He couldn't wait to retire.

Complete the sentence in a way that shows you understand the meaning of the italicized vocabulary word.

Greg became Aaron's nemesis when Greg...

From the list below, supply the words needed to complete the paragraph. Some words will not be used. Berserk delude knead edifice ambidextrous. Laurie _____ the modeling clay until it was soft enough to work with. Since her work required deep concentration, she nearly went _____ when her assistant interrupted for the third time to obtain Laurie's signature. Even though Laurie was _____, she could not sign her name and focus on her art simultaneously.

Complete the sentences by inferring information about the italicized word from its context. If a particular approach to solving a problem seems $\mathit{futile,}$ then you should...

Complete the sentence by inferring information about the italicized word from its context. A criminal who is imprisoned for nefarious crimes must have done things that,..