From the Mixed Up Files - Chapter 2 Vocabulary

a check for a fixed amount that can be cashed or used in payment

(typically used by travelers)

• expenditure

• traveler's check

• injustice

• suburbs

something which is paid out or spent

• expenditure

• traveler's check

• injustice

• suburbs

Which is a synonym for expenditure?

• spending; payments

• worthless

• shiny; new

• expensive; worth a lot of money

Which of the following sentences uses "expenditure" correctly?

• Claudia put Jamie in charge of their expenditures since he had most of the money.

• Claudia was a victim of expenditure because she always had to do chores for her siblings.

• Jamie needed to write an expenditure to pay for the train tickets.

One of the _____________ that I have on vacation is meals.

• traveler's check

• expenditure

The space program requires the _____________ of huge amounts of money in order to buy materials to make their rockets.

• expenditure

• traveler's check

• injustice

• suburbs