Vocabulary 10/12/09 (SSI: Also do definitions in notebook.) - tentative, indolent, intricate, excruciating, benign, conspicuous, unnerve, sullen, composure, obsolete

1. The guests admired the ___________ beadwork on the brides wedding gown. It must have taken that poor Chinese kid hundreds of hours.  Your synonym: _____________________
2. Typewriters have become ___________ because everyone now uses computers.  Your synonym: _____________________
3. The sight of the dead snake really ___________(ed) me...   Your synonym: ____________
4. ...but the snake turned out to be ___________, good for the garden, and didn't even have teeth.   Your synonym: _____________________
5. Even in the middle of the raging battle, he never panicked or lost his ______________.   Your synonym: _____________________
6. Some kids who were friendly when they were younger get _________ and resentful as they reach their teenage years.   Your synonym: _____________________
7. Because it had been raining so much, we __________(ly) planned the picnic for Saturday, also made other plans just in case.   Your synonym: _____________________
8. "It stood out like a sore thumb" is a way of saying something is _____________.  Your synonym: _____________________
9. He spent the summer very _____________(ly), sleeping in every day, doing almost nothing except lounging by the pool.  Your synonym: _____________________
10. Jose was in ___________ pain when he broke his arm.   Your synonym: ____________

Pretest 3A -- Academic Words III -- contribute, component, coordinate, convene, document, dominate, initial, scheme, outcome, specify, imply, justify, illustrate, consent, considerable, constrain, correspond, valid, sufficient, sequence

1. The police said that the driver's use of alcohol _____________(ed) to the crash.  a) illustrate  b) coordinate  c) convene  d) contribute  e) correspond
2. In order to prove his claim in court, he had to ______________ everything that happened. a) outcome  b) consent  c) imply  d) component  e) document
3. He likes to talk loud, and tries to _____________ every conversation with his long stories.  a) sequence  b) document  c) dominate  d) convene  e) scheme
4. When I first met him, my _____________ impression was that he was a bit sloppy.  a) component  b) coordinate  c) valid  d) consent  e) initial
5. Before you can appear on tv, you have to sign a _______________ form that basically says that they have your permission.  a) constrain  b) consent  c) imply  d) considerable  e) sequence
6. By the tone of his voice I could tell he was ______________(ing) something he wasn't saying.  a) imply  b) scheme  c) coordinate  d) valid  e) contribute
7. The reasons he gave for the grade I received didn't seem ____________. He couldn't really back them up with examples. a) document  b) valid  c) scheme  d) illustrate  e) considerable
8. Please try to recall the ____________ of events. Which happened first, the chicken or the egg?  a) coordinate  b) convene  c) document  d) sequence  e) outcome
9. Since you didn't _____________ how you wanted your sandwich made, I made it the same as mine.  a) initial  b) specify  c) dominate  d) correspond  e) illustrate
10. In his speech, he _____________(ed) all of the technical terms he used with examples.  a) illustrate  b) justify  c) valid  d) sequence  e) dominate
11. Usually, how far you get in life _______________(s) to how hard you work at it.  a) document  b) dominate  c) contribute  d) correspond  e) justify
12. A major ________________ of any good spelling program is PRACTICE!  a) outcome  b) component  c) sequence  d) contribute  e) scheme
13. I hope you have a(n) ______________ to get us out of this mess.  a) sequence  b) outcome  c) illustration  d) scheme  e) contribute
14. One should hope that a(n) ______________ of a good spelling program would be better spelling.  a) sequence  b) component  c) coordinate  d) convene  e) outcome
15. After what happened at the high school, a special meeting of the school board was _____________(ed)  a) outcome  b) convene  c) dominate  d) contribute  e) considerable
16. How much money you spend should be ________________(ed) by how much money you earn, but credit cards allow people to live beyond their means.  a) contribute  b) coordinate  c) convene  d) constrain  e) dominate
17. Many people's weddings get so complicated, they need people to ______________ all the tasks that need to get done on time.  a) convene  b) coordinate  c) consent  d) sufficient  e) contribute
18. The police didn't have ______________ evidence to charge him with the crime, so they had to let him go.  a) outcome  b) component  c) convene  d) initial  e) sufficient
19. The police report said that, because the man was holding a weapon, the use of force by the officer was __________(ed).  a) convene  b) initial  c) justify  d) dominate  e) sufficient
20. The teacher said I was wasting my _______________ talent for writing by playing videogames all day.  a) dominate  b) considerable  c) initial  d) sufficient  e) scheme

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Sentences for the academic words you missed. (SSI: All.)