Vocabulary Workshop Unit 10 Level B

Before the Civil War, many northerners _____ slavery as a terrible evil, but few wanted to go to war because of it.

• brittled

• condemned

• expanded

• appealed

Once the war began, however, many in the north argued that the time had come to ____ slavery once and for all.

• prey

• expand

• descend

• abolish

Abraham Lincoln's enemies called him a(n) _____ because he exercised so much power during the war.

• dictator

• prey

• famine

Illustrators and photographers accompanied Union troops during some of the war's bloodiest campaigns, leaving us an important ______ record.

• thrifty

• brittle

• visual

• expanded

Some African Americans who have ______ from slave families have passed along dramatic stories of their ancestors' experiences.

• abolished

• descended

• appealed

• condemned

Without enough water, plant fibers dry out and become ____.

• brittle

• flexible

• appealing

• visual

If too many plants die, insects have no food, and the birds and animals that _____ on insects lose their food supply.

• dictator

• portable

• victim

• prey

The threat of _____ often drives animals great distances in search of food.

• feast

• appeal

• famine

• plenty

If these animals do not ______ their hunting area, they too will starve.

• abolish

• appeal

• expand

• contract

It would help our teacher a lot to have a _______ computer that she could take home daily.

• thrifty

• portable

• expandable

• fixed