Weekly Vocabulary and 5 Idioms

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Weekly Vocabulary and 5 Idioms

• Use the context clues to guess the meaning of the
  underlined word. Write your guess in the box
  titled what I think it means. Later, you will
  fill in the rest of the chart.

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Word Number 1

• The morning train quickly accelerates once it
  leaves the station.
• Increased sunlight accelerates plant growth.

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Accelerate

• verb
• To go or to cause to go faster to bring about at
  an earlier time

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Word Number 2

• Mexico City lies at an altitude of almost 8,000
  feet.

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Altitude

• Noun
• Height above sea level or the earths surface.

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Word Number 3

• I am anxious about how I did on the Spanish test.
• After writing to each other for a year, the
  penpals were anxious to meet.
• Our anxiety increased as road conditions worsened.

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Anxious/Anxiety

• adjective, noun
• Worried, concerned eager wishing strongly
  great uneasiness or concern

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Word Number 4

• Mom braced the table with a metal stip to stop if
  from wobbling.
• We braced ourselves for a bumpy landing.
• I wore a brace on my leg until it healed.
• After time in the city, we found the mountain air
  wonderfully bracing.

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Brace/Bracing

• Verb, noun, adjective
• To make stronger by giving support to to make
  ready for a shock to prepare something used to
  support a weak part giving energy to refreshing

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Word Number 5

• We are confident we will win Saturdays game.
• My parents showed confidence in me by letting me
  repair the car.
• Because Anita told me this in confidence, I cant
  answer your question.

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Confident/Confidence

• noun, adjective
• Certain sure a lack of doubt a feeling of
  being certain trust in antoher to keep a secret

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Word Number 6

• Contact with a live wire will cause a shock.
• Before the telephone, people stayed in contact by
  letters.
• The Apollo astronauts could not contact Earth
  while on the mission.

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Contact

• Verb, noun
• The touching or joining of two things the
  condition of being in communication with others
  to communicate with

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Word Number 7

• Senators supporters exulted when she won the
  election.
• Theresa was exultant when she crossed the finish
  line.

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Exult/Exultant

• Verb, adjective
• To be joyful to show great happiness very happy

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Word Number 8

• The pilot steered the plane out of the hangar and
  onto the runway.

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Hangar

• noun
• A building where aircraft are kept and repaired

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Word Number 9

• The largest bus we have for school trips hold a
  maximum of fifty people.

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Maximum

• adjective, noun
• The greatest or highest number or amount being
  the greatest or highest number or amount

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Word Number 10

• Our methodical search of the house failed to turn
  up any evidence of a robbery.

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Methodical

• adjective
• Done in a regular, orderly way

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Word Number 11

• Your nonchalant attitude to schoolwork worries
  your parents.

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Nonchalant

• adjective
• Having the appearance of not caring seeming to
  show a lack of concern

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Word Number 12

• The subway train proceeded on its way after I got
  off at 14th street.

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Proceed

• verb
• To go on, especially after stopping for a while
  to continue

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Word Number 13

• Pedestrians saunter along the river bank.
• Our saunter around the park was terminated by a
  thunderstorm.

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Saunter

• verb, noun
• To walk without hurrying to stroll in a relaxed,
  unhurried manner a relaxed, unhurried walk

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Word Number 14

• A jubilant violin solo begins the symphony.
• An explorers solo voyage around the world made
  him famous.
• Most student pilots solo after ten hours of
  lessons.

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Solo

• Adjective, noun, verb
• A musical piece for one voice or instrument made
  or done by one person to fly alone, especially
  for the first time

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Word Number 15

• Each cow in the barn had its own stall.
• I purchased this pottery at one of the stalls at
  the fair.
• You will stall the engine if you hit the clutch
  too quickly.
• Tenants sometimes try to stall when paying rent.

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Stall

• Verb, noun
• A place for an animal in a barn a small stand or
  booth where things are sold to suddenly lose
  power to delay by being evasive