English 10 Vocab 28

Three words that all environmentalists have in their ___ are reduce, reuse, and recycle.

• denotation

• ejection

• throng

• lexicon

People aren't ___ to the recycling bins yet, but gradually, more and more are participating.

• ejecting

• thronging

• contending

• simulating

Some people have to have their memories ___, or shaken, continually to remember not to be wasteful.

• jostled

• ejected

• detonated

• daunted

Animals, plants, and people need hospitable environments. Our ___ abuses of nature, which contradict common sense, have threatened habitats everywhere.

• simulated

• ejectable

• irrational

• thronged

We should __ from our minds the notion that the earth is doomed. If we all work together, nature can be restored.

• detonate

• jostle

• eject

• rendezvous

My aunt ___ that either we must stop being inconsiderate of Mother Nature or we will all face a ___ with disaster.

• ejects, lexicon

• jostles, simulation

• daunts, throng

• contends, rendezvous

Nature cannot be imitated; if it is destroyed, it cannot be ___ for future generations. We need to make sure we do not behave in a senseless, ___ way.

• ejected, simulated

• simulated, irrational

• jostled, merging

• seethed, seething

Public pressure can prove ____ to companies and can lead them to seek new, safer technologies. Some companies have ___ outdated equipment and replaced it with equipment that is nonpolluting.

• ejecting, jostled

• jostling, simulated

• detonating, simulated

• daunting, ejected

People should stop being __ in their treatment of the environment and begin to behave in a reasonable manner.

• simulated

• irrational

• detonating

• daunting

It shouldn't take a major ___ or other violent human-caused catastrophe to make people stop misusing the environment.

• ejection

• simulation

• lexicon

• detonation