Daily Language Practice Grade 10

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 9

• 1. To attract customers merchants ocasionly pose
  live models next to mannequins they cant talk,
  smile, twitch or move a muscle.

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Vocabulary Week 9

• impresario one who presents cultural series
  organizer
• extortion getting money by treats
• adverse- unfavorable, harmful
• asset a valuable thing to have
• bigot a narrow-minded, prejudiced person

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 9

• 2. He remembered the word silhouette while
  cutting a shape from the black paper and began to
  wonder where it came from.

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Vocabulary Week 9

• blatant disagreeably loud very showy
• entourage group of attendants
• virulent full of hate harmful
• venom poison spite malice
• spew throw up vomit eject

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 9

• 3. In the book Once upon a time when we were
  Colored, he describes hisself growing up as an
  african american in Mississippi during the
  1950s.
• (The author of this book is Clifton Taulbert.)

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Vocabulary Week 9

• loath unwilling reluctant
• solicit to beg seek earnestly
• astute keen shrewd
• advocate to be in favor of to support
• ineffectual not effective

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 9

• 4. As Sonja and myself loaded new software onto
  her computer, it made a grinding noise that
  reminded her and I of the time she stripped the
  gears on her Mothers car.

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Vocabulary Week 9

• scrutinize examine closely
• nefarious villainous vicious
• amicable friendly peaceful
• vexatious annoying
• malady - disease

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 9

• 5. As the train rounded the dangerous curve on a
  specially dezigned rail it tipped inward slightly
  but remained stable.