american heritage dictionary

Question 1

Pg.32; auspicious

Answer 1

Adj.conducive to success; favorable.

Ex.Sen. To hold the election was auspicious.

Question 2

Pg.32; evolved

Answer 2

V. develop gradually, especially from a simple to a more complex form.
Ex.Sen. The math problem evolved and got to hard to solved.

Question 3

Pg.32; expended

Answer 3

V.spend or use up (a resource such as money, time, or energy).
Ex.Sen. For the trip they just expended their whole food money.

Question 4

Pg.32; fruitless

Answer 4

Adj.failing to achieve the desired results; unproductive or useless.
Ex.Sen. The girls thought they were fruitless because they didn’t make the basketball team.

Question 5

Pg. 34 wrought

Answer 5

Adj. (of metals) beaten out or shaped by hammering.

Ex.Sen. The nail was wrought due to all the mistakes they did.

Question 6

Pg. 34; tyranny

Answer 6

N. cruel and oppressive government or rule.

Ex.Sen. People that survive tyranny and war are amazing people.

Question 7

Pg.35; unanimous

Answer 7

Adj. of two or more people fully in agreement.

Ex.Sen. The teachers had a unanimous in the there meeting.

Question 8

Pg. 35; scuppernongs

Answer 8

N. amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States.
Ex.Sen.”n places the wild scuppernong vines stretched from tree to tree.

Question 9

Pg. 35; ethical

Answer 9

Adj.of or relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these.
Ex.Sen. The ethical issue is nursing.

Question 10

Pg. 37; arbitrated

Answer 10

V. (of an independent person or body) reach an authoritative judgment or settlement.
Ex.Sen. The school board arbitrated on what they should do to the kids that get bullied.

Question 11

Pg. 37; palette

Answer 11

N.a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colors.
Ex.Sen. The artist used up all the paint on the palette.

Question 12

Pg. 37; skeeter

Answer 12

V.move lightly and quickly or hurriedly.

Ex.Sen. The boys skeeter up the stairs.

Question 13

Pg. 37; reluctantly

Answer 13

N. as doing something against your will, or with opposition.
Ex.Sen. I reluctantly got to doctors when I know I have to get a shot.

Question 14

Pg. 38; mortifying

Answer 14

V.cause (someone) to feel embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated.
Ex.Sen. She said the whole time at the party she was feeling mortifying.

Question 15

Pg. 38; ritual

Answer 15

N. a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.
Ex.Sen. The ritual of Christians worship.

Question 16

Pg. 39; phenomena

Answer 16

N.plural form of phenomenon

Ex.Sen. Trees are a kind of phenomena for nature.

Question 17

Pg. 39; immune

Answer 17

Adj.protected or exempt, especially from an obligation or the effects of something.
Ex.Sen. The kids are going to be immune after they go to the meetings.

Question 18

Pg. 39; parceled

Answer 18

V.divide into portions and then distribute.

Ex.Sen. Sue parceled up his only winter suit to take to the dry cleaners.

Question 19

Pg.39;Gothic

Answer 19

Adj.of or relating to the Goths or their extinct East Germanic language,
Ex.Sen. In the 4th-6th centuries Gothic was used.

Question 20

Pg. 39; melancholy

Answer 20

N. a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
Ex.Sen. All the air that surrounded was full of melancholy.

Question 21

Pg.40; evasion

Answer 21

N. the action of evading something.

Ex.Sen. The little kids knew that the girls are going to have a big evasion on there x-box games.

Question 22

Pg. 41; quelling

Answer 22

V.suppress (a feeling, especially an unpleasant one).

Ex.Sen. He doesn’t like that he has to speak with a quelling boy at school.