Book 7 - Lesson 20

Question 1

Foster

Answer 1

1. To promote the growth of; to encourage.
2. Giving or receiving care in a family that is not related by birth or adoption.

Question 2

Deritment

Answer 2

1. Damage or harm.
2. Anything that causes harm.

(Detrimental) Damaging; harmful.

Question 3

Diversity

Answer 3

1. The condition of being different or having differences.
2. Variety.

Question 4

Incentive

Answer 4

Something that makes a person want to try or work harder.

Question 5

Emit

Answer 5

1. To give off or send out.
2. To utter or express.

(Emission) Something that is emitted.

Question 6

Compel

Answer 6

To force or require to do something.

Question 7

Inanimate

Answer 7

Lacking qualities associated with living things.

Question 8

Deplore

Answer 8

1. To feel or express sorrow or regret.
2. To disapprove of strongly.

(Deplorable) Very bad; wretched.

Question 9

Toxic

Answer 9

Causing harm; poisonous.

Question 10

Derelic

Answer 10

1. Dilapidated and abandoned.
2. Lacking a sense of duty; neglectful.
3. A poor, homeless person.

Question 11

Delude

Answer 11

To misled; to deceive.

(Delusion) A false or mistaken belief.

Question 12

Badger

Answer 12

1. To keep bothering.
2. A strongly built, burrowing mammal common in many northern parts of the world.

Question 13

Species

Answer 13

A group of plants or animals that are similar in some ways.

Question 14

Apathy

Answer 14

A lack of interest or concern.

Question 15

Omen

Answer 15

An event or sign that is believed to indicate the future.

(Ominous) Of or like a bad omen; threatening.