Vocabulary #13

___________, unwise decisions often lead to undesired outcomes. Discipline leads to freedom. They who lead careless lives find themselves fraught with difficulties and beset by demons of the mind.

• Imprudent

• Indigenous

• Indigent

• Impudent

An ___________ student often finds himself in in-school suspension. Rude behavior is boorish at best and a sign of disrespect.

• impudent

• imprudent

• intimate

• indignant

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CCSS.L.3.2F

In the Battle of Bloedrivier near the banks of the river of the same name in 1838, the 434 Dutch Voortrekkers fought an _________ Zulu army between 10,000 and 15,000 men in size. There were three Boers wounded but over 3000 Zulu dead after the battle. While the Zulus fought with spears and shields, the Boers had artillery and muskets.

• indigenous

• indigent

• indignant

• intimate

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CCSS.L.5.5C

The family became _________ after both the father and the mother lost their jobs. They scarcely were able to afford food and lost their house and car.

• indigent

• indignant

• indigenous

• impudent

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Some stay __________ and outraged all the time over the state of politics in our nation, but they don't realize how much mental energy they waste thinking about what amounts to nothing much more than a dog-and-pony show, about which they can do little to change.

• indignant

• indigent

• imprudent

• impudent

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CCSS.L.3.2F

The principal _______ that the school might close on Wednesday if it snowed enough on Tuesday night.

• intimated

• intimidated

• imprudent

• impudent

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Koos is a shaggy giant at 6 feet 5 inches tall, weighs about 260 pounds, has a big beard, and looks terribly __________, but he is really a nice guy. He likes kittens and puppies.

• intimidation

• intimidate

• intimidating

• intimating

Some books are so long that editors will ______ them so that they are more accessible to readers intimidated by, say, an 800 page novel. However, I prefer to read the originals. 200 pages of War and Peace is insufficient to understand the scope and span of Tolstoy's masterwork.

• abridge

• antidote

• anecdote

• intimidate

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Lao Che had poisoned Indy in hopes that he would die before he could take the _____________.

• antidote

• anecdote

• abridge

• aspire

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Here's a fun __________ about a long placename: Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein was supposedly named by a fellow by the name of Herculaas Pieter de Nysschen in 1866 when he "two buffalos with one rifle-shot stone dead shot" by a "fountain," which is what the name translates to in English from the Dutch.

• anecdote

• antidote

• abridge

• indigent

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D