Daily Language Practice Grade 10

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 19

• 1. sum scientists believe that our home galaxy
  the milky way is about 12,000,000,000 years old.

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VocabularyGrade 10 Week 19

• megalomania (n) abnormal desire for wealth
  and power
• profligate (adj) wasteful
• strife (n) discord, disagreement
• legion (n) a large number
• coup (n) revolution
• idiom to play possum to try to fool someone
  into thinking you are asleep or dead

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 19

• 2. The Civil War came to an end in 1865 when
  Robert E Lee surrenders to Ulysses S Grant at
  appomattox Court House in Virginia.

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VocabularyGrade 10 Week 19

• amnesty (n) a general pardon
• expatriate (n) an exile
• exonerate (n) to free from guilt
• fiat (n) an official order, a decree
• mendacious (adj) lying untrue
• idiom its an ill wind that blows nobody good
• Someone usually benefits from another persons
  misfortune

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 19

• 3. Tara and myself learned that a mirage is a
  optical allusion. Occurs in the dessert, in the
  arctic, and sometimes above hot pavement.

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VocabularyGrade 10 Week 19

• parsimonious (adj) miserly
• pecuniary (adj) financial
• dismantle (v) to strip of covering to take
  apart
• sumptuous (adj) lavish
• underwrite (v) agree to finance
• idiom to know the ropes to be fully acquainted
  with the procedures

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 19

• 4. Abraham Lincoln begun the gettysburg address
  by saying, fourscore and seven years ago,

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VocabularyGrade 10 Week 19

• restrictive (adj) harsh confining
• balk (v) to refuse to move
• blunt (adj) plain spoken
• nostalgia (n) yearning for the past
• rife (adj) widespread
• idiom behind the eight ball in trouble

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 19

• 5. Fluorescent lightbulbs last thirteen time more
  long then regular incandescent bulbs.