504 Essential Words Word Review 1 slides 24-25 , ex-es A B C D E

A. In each of the parentheses below you will find two of the new vocabulary words. Pick the one that fits better. Remember, the sentences should make good sense.

1. It was a typical day in July, hot and sticky.
2. I could tell that Matt was coming because I knew his blend of tobacco.
3. Please realize that if you try to climb the icy mountain peril awaits you.
4. The mechanic detected an oil leak in the engine.
5. How could you neglect paying the rent?
6. Felix made a sinister remark that sent chills up and down my spine.
7. Many questions had to be answered before Mrs. Soto could qualify for the job.
8. I am unaccustomed to receiving gifts from people I don’t know very well.
9. Factory-made goods are plentiful, but farm products are scarce.
10. When he got to the jail, the people in charge tried to reform him.

B. Opposites. In Column I are ten words taught in Lessons 1-6. Match them correctly with their opposite meanings, which you will find in Column II.

Column I — approach, expensive, visible, popular, vacant, keen, descend, humid, vanish, essential

Column II — unseen, filled, hated, dull, dry, be seen, leave, not needed, climb, cheap

approach — leave, expensive — cheap, visible — unseen, popular — hated, vacant — filled, keen — dull, descend — climb, humid — dry, vanish — be seen, essential — not needed

C. Which of the vocabulary choices in parentheses fits best in these newspaper headlines?

1. Sailors Abandon Sinking Ship
2. Congress Votes to Raise Minimum Wage
3. Dense Fog Covers Bay Area
4. Undif Parents Arrested for Child Neglect
5. Escaped Conflict Continues to Evade Police
6. College Campus Quiet After Demonstration
7. Mayor Takes Oath of Office on Steps of City Hall
8. Rescuers Descend into Mine to Find Lost Workers
9. New Apartment House to Rise on Vacant Land
10. Poll to Predict Outcome of Election

D. From the list of words below choose the word that means:

deceive	tradition	abandon	persuade	inhabit	gallant
thorough	evade	descend	comprehensive	eliminate	hardship
villain	assemble	circulate	talent	majority	wholesale
client	dense	predict	devise	defraud	recline
probe	theory	tact	conceal	data	tempt

1. in large amounts as well as less costly — wholesale
2. an evil doer, but originally meant someone who lived on a farm — villain
3. more than half as well as the legal age at which persons can manage their affairs — majority
4. search or investigate either by means of an instrument or simply by questioning — probe
5. cheat and also deprive someone of rights or property — defraud
6. give up on a plan as well as neglect one’s post — abandon
7. gather (data) or just get together — assemble
8. reject and also expel — eliminate
9. leaving out little or nothing and is related to the word for “understanding” — comprehensive
10. skill in dealing with people as well as a fine touch or cleverness — tact

E. Letter of Complaint. The following business letter uses 10 words that appeared in Lessons 1-6. Fill in the blanks with those words, selected from the group below:

1 — annual, 2 — enormous, 3 — detected, 4 — defects, 5 — hardship, 6 — expensive, 7 — wholesale, 8 — employees, 9 — neglected, 10 — essential