Palmer Trimester 1 Flashcards
Memorize these words as part of the required Word Choice Badge. You also have to memorize 50 of your own.
A major division within a play, similar to a chapter in a book. Each may be further divided into smaller sections, called scenes. Plays can have as many as five ______ or as few as one.
act
To become weaker; to decrease. The speaker waited until the applause had _____ before continuing.
abate
To admit the existence of. Did the police officer _____ your right to remain silent?
acknowledge
A person who acts or does business for another. The author’s ______ found a company to publish his latest mystery story.
agent
The right to give orders, make decisions, or take action. Only the Congress of the United States has the ________ to declare war.
authority
To ruin or destroy completely. Farmers in the Midwest fear that lack of rain will _____ the wheat crop.
devastate
The rapid spreading of a disease to many people at one time. The flu _______ of 1918 killed over twenty million people in the Northern Hemisphere.
epidemic
A number that is not exact; a careful guess. The mechanic’s ________ for repairing the car is $1,000.
estimate
To force out of property by taking legal action. The landlord threatened to _____ the tenants for not paying the rent.
evict
Not favoring one side more than another; fair. A judge should be _____ in the courtroom.
impartial
Hardworking; not lazy. The more ______ workers in the clothing factory were rewarded with pay raises at the end of the year.
industrious
To make very angry. Cruelty to animals ________ me.
infuriate
Having nothing to do with the subject. The candidate’s personal wealth is _____ to our discussion about his qualifications for the job.
irrelevant
Exact; accurate. Do you know the _____ time that your plane arrives?
precise
Something fake or false. Their offer to make us rich turned out to be a _____
sham
A long, slow, and difficult journey. The hikers were exhausted after their _____ over the mountain.
trek
Wise in a clever or practical way. An _______ shopper compares prices carefully before making a purchase.
astute
Genuine; true. An authority on old maps declared that the sixteenth-century chart of the Florida Keys is _____.
authentic
A choice item of food. Smoked salmon is a _______.
delicacy
Expressing a low opinion; intended to hurt the reputation of a person or thing. His habit of making ______ comments about his co-workers made him unpopular.
derogatory
To eat up hungrily. The wolf was about to ____ Little Red Riding Hood when the woodcutter arrived.
devour
Something that is made up in the mind but that has no connection with reality. The monster in the closet is a ____ of the child’s imagination.
figment
Imaginary; not real. Unicorns are ______ creatures.
mythical
A bird’s feathers. Parrots have brightly colored ______.
plumage
Living by killing and eating other animals. Crocodiles are ______ reptiles.
predatory
Coming earlier in time. I was unable to see you this morning because I had a _____ appointment.
prior
To search through or pick over, looking for something usable. People with metal detectors _____ the beach looking for coins.
scavenge
To kill in order to obtain meat. The hogs are fattened up before they are ______.
slaughter
The condition of being alone or at some distance from people. We enjoyed the ____ of a walk on the deserted beach.
solitude
Moving in a clumsy or awkward way. Walruses, graceful in the water, are ______ creatures on land.
ungainly
Open to attack; easily injured physically or emotionally.
vulnerable
To warn. Rescue workers _______ us to stay away from the flooding river.
admonish
Struck with horror; shocked. We were aghast at the photographs of starving children in Africa.
aghast
To destroy completely; to reduce to utter ruin. General Custer’s army of over 200 men was _______ at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
annihilate
A person who provides help, especially by giving money. People who donated more than $100 were listed as _____ of the library.
benefactor
To give as an honor; to present as a gift. An Academy Award is the highest honor Hollywood can ____ on a film.
bestow
Having many twists and turns; winding. The climbers followed a __________ route up the mountain.
devious
Lacking; empty; entirely without. Although he had experienced great misfortune, he was _____ of bitterness.
devoid
To pay attention to. I hope you will _____ my advice.
heed
A human being, especially as contrasted with a god. Achilles, a hero in Greek mythology, had a goddess for a mother and a _______ for a father.
mortal
The base system of numbers that uses only two digits. The language of computers.
binary
The set of all numbers that are not imaginary.
real numbers
The set of all real numbers that can be written as fractions.
rational numbers
The set of rational numbers on the number line from negative infinity to positive infinity that does not include fractions or decimals.
integers
The set of integers that go from 0 to positive infinity on the number line.
whole numbers
The set of whole numbers that go from 1 to positive infinity on the number line.
natural numbers
A symbol used to write a number. In the base-ten system, there are only ten ______.
digit
Making the place value system possible, this digit makes it so that a finite amount of digits can make an infinite amount of numbers.
zero
A mnemonic device that helps us know the order of operations, but that can be confused to mean that multiplication comes before division and that addition comes before subtraction when solving from left to right.
PEMDAS
The correct way to say this number 1,345.75 that makes it easy to convert it into a fraction.
One thousand, three hundred forty-five AND seventy-five hundredths.
