UNFAMILIAR VOCABULARY

Even when the police officers put the handcuffs on my mother, she maintained her dignity, holding her head up high as she was marched off the protest site.

• honorous

• honor

• honored

The rays from the rising sun shined splendidly through our kitchen window

• marvelously

• marvelous

• marvelus

John was so hungry that he didn’t leave a single particle of the muffin on the plate.

• framen

• fragmenty

• fragment

Cassie took her time when she wrote in cursive, slowly making each word out of an elegant series of arcs and loops. 

• sophisticated

• sofisthicated

• sofiesticated

Kevin thought that it was a great injustice that girls could wear earrings in the school while the boys could not.     

• infregiment

• infrigement

• infringement

After Gears of Pain 6 came out, the amount of people playing Gears of Pain 5 declined. 

     

• diminished

• diminishing

• diminish

When Rex had a bone, a warm spot to lie, and someone petting him, he was in paradise. 

• heaven

• haeven

• haven

Alvin went to the museum every Saturday because he was so fascinated by art

• mesmerize

• mesmerizing

• mesmerized

Even though John had a good job and a nice family, he yearned for more.

• eager

• eagering

• eagered

Since professional athletes have to stay in peak physical shape, most athletes seldom eat junk food. 

• scarcely

• escarcely

• scarserly