Vocabulary Unit One

Review Units 1-3

Vocabulary for Comprehension

1. a 7. a 2. b 8. b 3. e 9. c 4. e 10. c 5. d 11. d 6. c 12. d

Grammar in Context Error is listed along with the incorrect sentence. Second line is a correct sentence.

1. Sentence fragment: The larger a city is the more trash. The larger a city is, the more trash it produces.

2. Sentence fragment: Recycling many items in the city where we live. People are recycling many items in the city where we live.

3. Comma splice: Airborne dioxins disperse, they eventually reach humans through the food chain. Airborne dioxins disperse, and they eventually reach humans through the food chain.

4. Correct as is: If you wish to create less waste, consumer fewer products.

5. Comma splice: Not paying attention to recycling rules is foolish, it’s also against the law. Not paying attention to recycling rules is foolish; it’s also against the law.

6. Comma splice: We know what happens to old newspapers, what happens to old train cars and airplanes? We know what happens to old newspapers, but what happens to old train cars and airplanes?

7. Comma splice: That book about how some companies near Boston polluted a river and made people in the neighborhood sick was made into a movie, did you see it? That book about how some companies near Boston polluted a river and made people in the neighborhood sick was made into a movie. Did you see it? Two-Word Completions 4. c debris…salvage 1. d pilfering…expulsion 5. b rifts…altercations 2. b dissenters…jeer 6. a surmount...circumspect 3. d pauper…lucrative 7. a condone…dissolute

Choosing the Right Meaning

1. abridge reduce 2. cumbersome slow-moving 3. breach violation 4. eminent jutting 5. diffuse rambling

Antonyms - opposites 8. muddle neatness 1. tantalize gratify 9. relinquish keep 2. erratic constant 10. condone condemn 3. unflinching wavering 11. unbridled restrained 4. lucrative unprofitable 12. salvage abandon 5. obesity emaciation 13. diffuse concentrate 6. expulsion admission 14. fortify undermine 7. cherubic impish 15. trite original 16. rift reconciliation Word Associations

1. alien citizen of a foreign country 2. altercation noisy, heated quarrel 3. circumspect careful to consider all possibilities 4. commandeer seize for military purposes 5. dissolute loose in one’s morals or behavior 6. brigand one who lives by plunder or robbery 7. terminate bring to a conclusion 8. salvage rescue property in danger 9. efface make indistinct by wearing away 10. surmount rise superior to 11. feint distract attention from the intended point of attack 12. opinionated holding stubbornly to one’s own judgment 13. dilemma choice between two undesirable courses of action 14. terse without unnecessary words 15. dissent differ in opinion 16. fodder something to be consumed 17. deadlock bring to a standstill 18. marauder one who invades the territory of another 19. condone wink at 20. irate characterized by anger