Blue Vocabulary Workshop unit 5-8

The powerful earthquake that hit the San Francisco Bay area on October 17, 1989, did _______________damage to the city, though not nearly so much as was done by the terrible earthquake and fire of 1906.

• Considerable
• jolt
• barriers
• calculated

Safety officials put up
____________ to keep people away from unsafe areas.

• jolt
• barriers
• considerable
• calculated

Van Gogh ____________at the completion of each new painting but despaired that his work never sold.

• shriveled
• industrious
• rejoiced
• composed

Community leaders spoke out against this _______violence and urged people to act responsibly during the emergency.

• senseless
• deputies
• reliable
• looted

Several sheriff’s_______ arrived to restore order and interview witnesses.

• deputies
• shriveled
• reliable

fully grown or developed

• energetic
• mature
• enforce
• feat

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

to tear down, break to pieces

• mature
• alternate
• demolish
• primary

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

the decision of a jury at the end of a trial or legal case

• demolish

• mature
• verdict
• strive

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Antonym for demolish

• to construct, build
• secondary, last
• to overlook, abandon
• insincere, phony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.5C

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.6.4A

In most games, players take turns or ________ moves.

• demolish
• alternate
• enforce
• resign

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C