WorksheetsWhen Do Kids Become Adults? vocabulary (context clues)
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 18mins
Like all lines that divide legal childhood from adulthood, the voting age is essentially arbitrary.
Release it from a place; unanchored
Joining together in one place; gathering; joining
Bad or offensive; shocking; in an outstandingly bad way; shockingly
Determined by chance; based on random choice
In modern America 18-year-old voting has become unmoored from one of its more important original justifications, which was matching the minimum age for draft eligibility (itself also an arbitrary line).
Release it from a place; unanchored
Bad or offensive; shocking; in an outstandingly bad way; shockingly
Not enough; insufficiency; lack
To spread or scatter freely or widely
The issue lacked momentum until the late 1960s, when a confluence of factors—including the escalating war in Vietnam pushed 18-year-old voting closer to the surface of the national political agenda.
Independent; having the power to make your own decisions
Joining together in one place; gathering; joining
To stop something from happening; block
A group of individuals of the same age
Interest in improving young adults’ political participation would be better focused on attacking barriers like residency requirements that exclude college students and voter ID laws that disfavor young and mobile voters, sometimes egregiously.
A group of individuals of the same age
Release it from a place; unanchored
Bad or offensive; shocking; in an outstandingly bad way; shockingly; flagrant
Joining together in one place; gathering; joining
The first problem is the inadequacy of our driver training.
Not enough; insufficiency; lack
Joining together in one place; gathering; joining
Bad or offensive; shocking; in an outstandingly bad way; shockingly.
To spread or scatter freely or widely
The transition to adulthood can be either clear or diffuse, depending on whether a culture chooses to offer all the privileges and responsibilities at one distinct age or spread them across time.
Not enough; insufficiency; lack
Joining together in one place; gathering; joining
Release it from a place; unanchored
To spread or scatter freely or widely
Another psychological aspect of being an adult is feeling autonomous, and individuals whose autonomy is supported—at any age—are more personally motivated.
Release it from a place; unanchored
Independent; having the power to make your own decisions
Bad or offensive; shocking; in an outstandingly bad way; shockingly.
Joining together in one place; gathering; joining
Parents who are using technology (calls, Skype, texting, e-mail, Facebook, etc.) to micromanage lives from afar may be thwarting the timely passage to adulthood.
Joining together in one place; gathering; joining
Release it from a place; unanchored
To stop something from happening; block
Determined by chance; based on random choice
The result would be a cohort of more mature 19-year-olds who would make better workers and better citizens.
A group of individuals of the same age.
Determined by chance; based on random choice
Release it from a place; unanchored
Joining together in one place; gathering; joining
