unit 17

Question 1

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Answer 1

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Question 2

affection

Answer 2

n. Affection is a feeling of liking someone or something. Amanda has a lot of affection for her little sister’ Sarah.

Question 3

agency

Answer 3

n. An agency is a business or service set up to act for others. I went to a travel agency to help me arrange a flight home.

Question 4

ash

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n. Ash is the grey or black powder created when something is burned. The end of his cigar was full of ashes.

Question 5

confine

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v. To confine something is to keep it in one place. The elephant is confined to a cage in the zoo.

Question 6

dismiss

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v. To dismiss something is to say it is not important. He quickly dismissed my idea about the new project.

Question 7

erupt

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v. To erupt is to explode or blow apart’ especially a volcano. The volcano erupted for the first time in ten years.

Question 8

fate

Answer 8

n. Fate is a power that causes things to happen. Some people believe that the lines on a person’s hand can tell his or her fate.

Question 9

lava

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n. Lava is the hot substance made of melted rock that comes out of volcanoes. The red-hot lava poured from the volcano.

Question 10

miserable

Answer 10

adj. A miserable person is very unhappy. He was miserable after his dog died.

Question 11

navigate

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v. To navigate something is to control the way it moves or goes. She navigated the ship across the ocean.

Question 12

originate

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v. To originate somewhere is to start there. The idea of democracy originated in Ancient Greece.

Question 13

remainder

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n. The remainder of something is what is left. He took a bite of the apple and then gave me the remainder of it.

Question 14

retrieve

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v. To retrieve something is to find it and get it back. She retrieved her mail from the mailbox.

Question 15

shallow

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adj. A shallow thing is not deep. The kids were playing in the shallow water.

Question 16

slope

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n. A slope is ground that is not flat. The slope to the top of the mountain was very steep.

Question 17

span

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v. To span is to spread across an amount of time or space. His work at the bakery has spanned twenty years.

Question 18

superstition

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n. A superstition is something magical that people believe is real. It is a superstition that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.

Question 19

sympathy

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n. Sympathy is a feeling of sadness for another person who feels bad. I felt sympathy for my sister’ so I got her a balloon to cheer her up.

Question 20

vibrate

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v. To vibrate is to shake very hard. The machine made his whole body vibrate as he broke up the ground.

Question 21

wander

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v. To wander is to walk without going to a certain place. The boys like to wander in the woods and look at birds.