Vocab - Chapter 6

Vocab - Chapter 6

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Predicting

Multiple Choice

weak

• opportune

• appease

• malevolent

• tenuous

• baffle

Multiple Choice

to confuse

• opportune

• appease

• malevolent

• tenuous

• baffle

Multiple Choice

to soothe

• opportune

• appease

• malevolent

• tenuous

• baffle

Multiple Choice

favorable

• opportune

• appease

• malevolent

• tenuous

• baffle

Multiple Choice

mean

• opportune

• appease

• malevolent

• tenuous

• baffle

Multiple Choice

state of being able to approach or enter

• interceding

• retain

• speculate

• access

• symbolize

Multiple Choice

to suppose

• interceding

• retain

• speculate

• access

• symbolize

Multiple Choice

to hold

• interceding

• retain

• speculate

• access

• symbolize

Multiple Choice

to represent

• interceding

• retain

• speculate

• access

• symbolize

Multiple Choice

requesting something of someone else

• interceding

• retain

• speculate

• access

• symbolize

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Choose the correct meaning

Multiple Choice

Baffle

• frustrated

• quiet

Multiple Choice

intercede

• to ignore

• to request for another

Multiple Choice

appease

• excite

• calm

Multiple Choice

access

• get

• stop

Multiple Choice

malevolent

• kind

• mean

Multiple Choice

opportune

• convenient

• ill-timed

Multiple Choice

speculate

• wonder

• know

Multiple Choice

tenuous

• slight

• powerful

Multiple Choice

symbolize

• represent

• fake

Multiple Choice

retain

• to remember

• to forget

Fil in the missing word

Fill in the Blank

retain, opportune, baffle, tenuous, access, intercede,

malevolent, appease, symbolize, speculating

I have ________ to my client files on the computer

Fill in the Blank

retain, opportune, baffle, tenuous, access, intercede,

malevolent, appease, symbolize, speculating

Let me ________: I speak Italian. They want directions to the Monument

Fill in the Blank

retain, opportune, baffle, tenuous, access, intercede,

malevolent, appease, symbolize, speculating

The king's control of the country was ______, The people were rebelling, and only the promise of greater freedom could stop them.

Fill in the Blank

retain, opportune, baffle, tenuous, access, intercede,

malevolent, appease, symbolize, speculating

The number of candles on a birthday cake _________ the person's age

Fill in the Blank

retain, opportune, baffle, tenuous, access, intercede,

malevolent, appease, symbolize, speculating

I was able to _____ the hungry child with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a glass of milk

Fill in the Blank

retain, opportune, baffle, tenuous, access, intercede,

malevolent, appease, symbolize, speculating

I felt I picked the _______ moment to visit my sister: her family was just sitting down to dessert

Fill in the Blank

retain, opportune, baffle, tenuous, access, intercede,

malevolent, appease, symbolize, speculating

I was able to _______ a dozen words of Swedish even after traveling through four other countries

Fill in the Blank

retain, opportune, baffle, tenuous, access, intercede,

malevolent, appease, symbolize, speculating

How the murder was committed continued to _____ the police ten years after the crime

Fill in the Blank

retain, opportune, baffle, tenuous, access, intercede,

malevolent, appease, symbolize, speculating

Nettie said she was not being ________, but telling my boyfriend that I was at a party with another boy and failing to mention that it was my cousin didn't seem nice to me.

Fill in the Blank

retain, opportune, baffle, tenuous, access, intercede,

malevolent, appease, symbolize, speculating

My friends and I spent the spring _______ on what the new building downtown was going to be used for. None of us supposed a fitness center

Complete the sentence

Pay attention to grammar and tenses!

Fill in the Blank

Unexplained face on Palm Tree ______ Visitors and Scientist in Hawaii.

Fill in the Blank

Airlines attempt to _____ delayed passengers with free food and drinks.

Fill in the Blank

Online _____ to health information while traveling improved.

Fill in the Blank

______ time to visit Australia: Prices have never been lower

Fill in the Blank

_______ your sanity - Escape for a week to a Greek Island.

Fill in the Blank

Tour of Asia's historic sites _____ after the virus spreads in several countries

Fill in the Blank

Mysterious _______ voice terrorizes tourists at local hotel

Fill in the Blank

Officials _______ on behalf of tour groups stuck in a border dispute.

Fill in the Blank

As summer approaches cities ______ on becoming latest popular destination

Fill in the Blank

Tourist amazed by ancient cave painting believed to _______ a rocket ship

Review Vocab

access

• n. state of being able to approach or enter

• v. to get

Open Ended

Write a sentence with the word : access

appease

• v. to calm, to soothe

• to satisfy

Open Ended

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baffle

v. to confuse, to frustrate

Open Ended

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intercede

• v. to request something for someone else

Open Ended

Write a sentence with the word: intercede

malevolent

• adj. wishing or producing evil or harm on others

• mean

Open Ended

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Opportune

• adj. favorable, appropriate

• convenient, well-timed

Open Ended

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retain

• v. to hold, to keep

• to remember

Open Ended

Write a sentence with the word: retrain

speculate

• v. to suppose, to wonder

• to think curiously about

Open Ended

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symbolize

• v. to represent

• to mean

Open Ended

Write a sentence with the word: symbolize

tenuous

• adj. slight, weak, thin

• 
  

Open Ended

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