Week 1 Lexile Words

verb

1. To keep in possession or use.

2. To keep in one's pay or service.

3. To employ by paying a retainer.

4. To hold secure.

• retain

• maintain

• obtain

• sustain

Someone living at the same time.

• contemporary

• ancient

• historical

• futuristic

noun

1. A person or thing in the twentieth position.

2. One of twenty equal parts of a whole.

adjective

3. The ordinal form of the number twenty.

What is the term that describes this?

• twentieth

• twenty

• twentyth

• twent

• twentyth

verb

1. To cause; persuade; force.

• induce

• reduce

• produce

• introduce

An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue -- like a new product, market trend or government regulation -- with a range of speakers.

• seminar

• workshop

• conference

• webinar

In a critical manner.

• critically

• analytically

• positively

• neutrally

increasing in amount or intensity.

• decreasingly

• increasingly

• stagnantly

• minimally

verb

1. Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost.

• primarily

• secondarily

• occasionally

• peripherally

noun

1. The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.

• review

• critique

• criticism

• evaluation

verb

1. To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter.

• dedicate

• allocate

• devote

• distribute