VoQz 023: Gettysburg Address Vocab

In their book The Future of the Professions, Richard and Daniel Susskind argue that we tend to _____ of occupations as embodied in a person – a butcher or baker, doctor or teacher.

• conceive

• liberty

• proposition

• engage

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.2.4C

Of course, the fear is that by enabling such surveillance during a crisis, you will forever ratchet down the amount of _____ Americans enjoy during normal times.

• liberty

• proposition

• engage

• endure

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“For this is a time for us to speak with one voice, to act with one heart, dedicated to the _____ that we must act, and we must act today.”

• proposition

• engage

• endure

• hallow

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Some 60 countries currently _____ in active conscription, most of which register both men and women, according to a Pew Research survey, though women in practice are very rarely called upon to serve.

• engage

• endure

• hallow

• consecrated

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Even in normal times, they _____ long lines at stores and pharmacies.

• endure

• hallow

• consecrated

• detract

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Such credentials allowed Reagan to _____ the Democratic past while reviling the Democratic present.

• hallow

• consecrated

• detract

• vain

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Dad reached into his pocket and withdrew a vial of _____ oil, which he placed in my palm.

• consecrated

• detract

• vain

• perish

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Mr. Kasich added that “it isn’t unusual in a speech for somebody to clarify something” and that it shouldn’t _____ from the effectiveness of the president’s address.

• detract

• vain

• perish

• conceive

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

As a result, Mr. Colvin was sitting on an enormous cache of sanitizer and wipes while much of the country searched in _____ for them.

• vain

• perish

• conceive

• liberty

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

New Zealand’s famous kiwi birds are suffering from dehydration as drought affects many northern areas of the country, with conservationists warning chicks may soon _____ too.

• perish

• conceive

• liberty

• proposition

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C