07/12 ESOL Key Vocabulary

A __________ delinquent is a young person who habitually commits criminal acts and offenses.

• commit

• empathy

• juvenile

• maturity

Making eye ________ with the person you are talking to is important in interpersonal communication.

• commit

• salvage

• maturity

• contact

Do not _________ any mistakes when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. You should already know it by heart.

• commit

• salvage

• consequence

• juvenile

I could not help but feel __________ for the young girl who had just lost her father. What if it happens to me, too?

• circumstances

• maturity

• empathy

• commit

I found clothes that seemed very new in the trash. I decided to _________ them.

• commit

• salvage

• contact

• consequence

A certain level of __________ is needed to understand the impossible situation you are in right now.

• juvenile

• consequence

• circumstances

• maturity

One ___________ of not paying attention is not knowing what to do next.

• salvage

• commit

• maturity

• consequence

Different people's actions depend on the respective ____________ they are in.

• circumstances

• juvenile

• salvage

• empathy

Which sentence uses "on" or "in" correctly ?

• I bought my first house on 1992.

• I bought my first house on December 1992.

• I bought my first house in December 28, 1992.

• I bought my first house on December 28, 1992.

What is the term for a word (present and used in different languages) that has come from a common parent language and is, therefore, the same or almost the same in those different languages?

Example: Spanish-familia; French-famille; Filipino-pamilya; English-family

• boondocks

• important

• cognate

• rapid