Unit 5b Week 1 Vocabulary Practice

A thorough secondary education will _?_ students to do well in college.

• enable

• submit

• salvage

• compassionate

A thorough secondary education will _?_ students to do well in college.

Although mortified, Sally tried her best to look _?_ as she struggled to climb out of the garbage can that she had been accidentally knocked into as the excited mob of fourth graders stormed the tour bus of the visiting musicians.

• simian

• enable

• dignified

• mere

Although mortified, Sally tried her best to look _?_ as she struggled to climb out of the garbage can that she had been accidentally knocked into as the excited mob of fourth graders stormed the tour bus of the visiting musicians.

Because _?_ batteries from the store were so expensive, George decided to try and make one of his own.

• commercial

• dignified

• practitioner

• initiative

Because _?_ batteries from the store were so expensive, George decided to try and make one of his own.

Before the storm was scheduled to arrive, Lucy went out to check that the _?_ was in good repair, so that they would have electricity to keep themselves from freezing when the blizzard knocked out the town’s power lines.

• practitioner

• generator

• simian

• distort

Before the storm was scheduled to arrive, Lucy went out to check that the _?_ was in good repair, so that they would have electricity to keep themselves from freezing when the blizzard knocked out the town’s power lines.

Tessa’s attitude toward the residents of her father’s tenements was _?_; she listened to their problems and arranged for job skill classes, interview seminars, clothing swaps, and other programs to help make their lives more successful.

• catacombs

• mute

• compassionate

• ambient

Tessa’s attitude toward the residents of her father’s tenements was _?_; she listened to their problems and arranged for job skill classes, interview seminars, clothing swaps, and other programs to help make their lives more successful.