Level F Unit 9

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Level F Unit 9
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Your Task

• On the lines beside the slide, please fill in the
  first word that pops into your head. Star any
  that win the synonym prize.
• Be sure to look for any signal words. Highlight
  two contrast signal words (write a complete list
  next to this slide for your reference.
• Find ONE example of parallel structure. Highlight
  it.
• Identify two words that have similar meanings,
  and describe your strategy for remembering their
  differences via connotation.

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abate

• We stood on the dock on that moonless night,
  waiting for the storm to ___.
• As her anger slowly ____, she realized that such
  childish outbursts of emotion would do nothing to
  help solve her problems.

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Adulation

• Athletes have little choice but to enjoy the
  sometimes puzzling _____ of their fans.
• It will mean more to him to gain the approval of
  the few people who can appreciate his work than
  to receive the ____ of the crowd.
• Is it any wonder that a 17-year-old star athlete
  becomes a smug when she receives such ___ from
  the entire school?

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anathema

• The authors views on bringing up children are
  ____ to my dad, but a delight to my mother.
• Since I truly loathe people who think they are
  above the common herd, any form of snobbery is
  truly ____ to me.
• As the election drew nearer, the candidates went
  from reasonable discussion to quarrelsomeness to
  _____ each other.

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astute

• The ____ management of money is a valuable skill
  but may not by itself make a good executive.
• I was impressed by the ___ way our hostess guided
  the conversation away from topics that might be
  embarassing to her guests.
• Sportswriters attribute the success of the
  pennant-winning team largely to the _____ of old
  Buck Coakley

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avarice

• Her career exhibited both the misers
  ever-growing _____ and the misers diminishing
  charm.
• The study of history teaches us that a hunger for
  land, like other kinds of ____, is the cause of
  many wars.
• He is completely indifferent to wealth and
  luxurious living his ____ is directed instead
  toward fame and prestige.

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culpable

• It was the inspectors ____ neglect of duty that
  left such old buses in service.
• How can you consider him ____ when the accident
  was caused by a landslide that no one could have
  foreseen or prevented?
• What do you think of the concept that when a
  crime is committed, society is often as ____ as
  the criminal?

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dilatory

• She hired an assistant because, on her own, she
  was always _____ in paying her bills.
• When you are ____ in returning a book to the
  library, you are preventing someone else from
  using it.
• In playing chess, she deliberately uses ___
  tactics to make her opponent impatient and tense.

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egregious

• Whoever allowed that man on a stage is guilty of
  an ____ blunder.
• I dont think Id call such an _____ grammatical
  mistake a minor slip of the pen.
• When the results of the her mistakes became
  public knowledge, she gained a well deserved
  reputation for being an ___ blunderer.

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equivocate

• I wont soon give my vote to a candidate who
  shows such a marked tendency to _______.
• Although she tried to _____, we insisted on a
  simple yes or no answer.
• In everyones a situation may arise that calls
  for a basic moral choice to be made, without
  compromise or _____.

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evanescent

• Looking back, I see that the magic of that summer
  was _____.
• Sure, its great to be a big-league ball player,
  but bear in mind that the years of stardom are
  brief and _____.
• The glory of this perfect spring day seems to be
  all the more precious because it is so _____.

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irresolute

• In Hamlet, the prince is _____ about whether to
  obey his fathers ghost or to go on as if nothing
  has happened.
• I was so ____ about whether to go out for
  basketball or for swimming I ended up going out
  for neither.
• As a result of ____ when that novel was first
  submitted, the publishing house lost the biggest
  best-seller of the year.

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nebulous

• By the time everyone present had expressed an
  opinion, the original idea had become somewhat
  _____.
• He holds forth in great detail on what is wrong
  with our city government, but the remedies he
  suggests are exceedingly _____.
• What she calls her philosophy on life seems to
  me a hodgepodge of childish fallacies and ___
  generalizations.

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novice

• You must be patient and realize that all his
  mistakes are typical of a ____ in this line of
  work.
• Since he was a ____ at bridge, the three veteran
  members hoped to find someone more suitable to
  fill out their table.
• Only a ___ at golf would have tried to use a
  driver when hitting into a strong wind.

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penury

• We never seem to tire of stories of people who go
  from _____ to sudden wealth.
• The ___ she had experienced in her childhood and
  youth made her keenly aware of the value of
  money.
• In the densely populated and underdeveloped
  countries we visited, we saw the depths to which
  people can be reduced by _____.

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pretentious

• Talking about ones wealth is though to be _____
  and in poor taste.
• Does he use all those quotations as a means of
  clarifying his meaning, or simply as a(n) _____
  display of his learning?
• Since he is known to be a multi-millionaire, it
  seems almost ___ of him, in an inverted sense, to
  drive around in a battered, inexpensive car.

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recapitulate

• Dont bother to ______ the plot of the book
  instead, tell me if you liked it.
• After giving us extremely detailed instructions
  for more than an hour, she briefly ____ and then
  sent us out on our assignments.
• Biologists have a theory that every plant or
  animal in the course of its development ___ all
  the stages of its evolution

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resuscitate

• We need someone who can ______ our neighborhood
  council and perk up community spirit.
• Using the most up-to-date equipment, the
  firefighters worked tirelessly to ____ the victim
  of smoke inhalation.
• They say that school spirit at Central High is
  dead, but I am confident that it can be ____ if
  the right methods are used.

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slovenly

• Her room was in a _____ state, and it took her an
  entire Saturday to clean it.
• I told my friend that dress for the party was
  casual, but he showed up looking, in my opinion,
  just plain _____.
• The ____ physical appearance of the report was
  matched by its careless writing and disorderly
  content.

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supposition

• Guided by a _____ that turned out to be false,
  they made some disastrous decisions.
• Your plan is based on one false ____ -- that I am
  willing to work without pay.

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torpid

• We all felt ____ after that long, dull lecture.
• Her mind, ____ as a result of hours of exposure
  to the bitter cold, was not alert enough to sense
  the impending danger.
• The heat in the room, the quiet drone of the fly
  at the window, and the bright sunlight put me in
  a ____ state.