Vocab Unit 1 Context Sentences

One way to begin an informal speech or an oral report is to quote an old ADAGE.

• wise saying

• rich mass of ore in a mine

• lacking politeness

• to make or force one's way by pushing or elbowing

The thrilling adventure movie set in Alaska proved to be a box-office BONANZA when so many people flooded theaters to see it.

• a profitable success

• a fortress overlooking a city

• to feel about hesitantly with the hands

• disagreeable in sound

The store manager instructed all the clerks to avoid CHURLISH replies to customers' questions.

• an order having the force of law

• rude

• a passage taken from a book, article, etc.

• applause

A medieval CITADEL once guarded the capital city of the Greek island of Rhodes.

• an order having the force of law

• to float or hang suspended over something or someone

• a fortress

• to develop gradually

Several students plan to COLLABORATE on a big geology project for the annual science fair.

• of or relating to a slave

• to bump, brush against, to compete for

• to return or go back to a previous state

• to work together

Caesar Augustus issued a DECREE that the world would be taxed.

• an order having the force of law

• a proverb or wise saying

• a passage taken from a book, article, etc.

• broken stones or bricks

The little spat struck a DISCORDANT note in our otherwise happy family get-together.

• slow to move, act, or respond

• unpleasant or jarring

• applause

• a watch, especially at night

Authors hope that their notes, descriptions, and character sketches will EVOLVE into a book.

• to float or hang suspended over something or someone

• to go back; to return to a previous condition

• to develop gradually; to rise to a higher level

• to work together

My essay includes a long EXCERPT from a speech by Sojourner Truth.

• broken stone or bricks; ruins

• a fortress overlooking a city

• a passage taken from a book, article, etc.

• to prevent or make impossible

When the power failed, we had to GROPE in the dark to find a working flashlight.

• lacking politeness or good manners

• a person who moves slowly or falls behind

• to search blindly and uncertainly with the hands

• to quarrel or argue in a noisy, angry way