1. Anecdote (N.) Short Narrative About an Interesting Or Amusing

UNIT 8 VOCABULARY Pg. 1 Word Meaning

1. anecdote (n.) short narrative about an interesting or amusing Incident or event; story

2. convey (v.) 1. impart; communicate; make known; express

2. carry from one place to another; transport; bring

3. demoniacal (adj.) produced or influenced by a demon (evil spirit); or demoniac devilish; fiendish

4. denouement (n.) final solution or untangling of a plot or complex (prounounced de-new-ma) situation; unravelment; disentanglement

5. essence (n.) 1. basic nature of a thing; quality or sum of qualities that makes a thing what it is

2. perfume; scent

6. fashionable (adj.) 1. dressing in or conforming to the fashion or style; in style; stylish (ant.) unfashionable, old-fashioned

2. patronized by those who conform to fashion

7. incidentally (adv.) 1. in an incidental (accidental) way; by chance; casually

2. apart from the main subject; by the way

8. incongruity (n.) condition of being incongruous (out of keeping or place; inappropriate); inconsistency; lack of harmony; lack of accordance with what is reasonable (ant.) consistency

9. malice (n.) desire to inflict unjustified harm or suffering just for the satisfaction of doing it; spite; animosity; malevolence; cruelty (ant.) benevolence, goodwill, charity

10. prime (adj.) first in importance, significance, quality, value, or rank; chief; principal; first-rate APPLYING WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED Pg 2

Exercise 1. Which of the two choices makes the sentence correct? Write the letter of your answer in the space provided.

1. I know how the movie ______because a friend told me about the denouement.

A. begins B. ends

2. It would be an incongruity for you to ______..

A. nominate Rita for President B. oppose Jack’s motion and vote to and vote for her opponent amend it

3. We need a ______convey the topsoil.

A. wheelbarrow B. sprinkler

4. It would not be an act of malice if you were to let air out of my tires ______.

A. just for the fun of it. B. because they are overinflated.

5. A good anecdote fills ______.

A. a page or less B. an average-sized book

6. The matter of the budget came up incidentally; ______.

A. it was on the agenda B. we had not planned to discuss it

7. ______, an old, feeble person may have demoniacal strength.

A. When rested B. In a frenzy

8. Don’t fret too much about a low grade on a ______; it is not of prime significance.

A. daily quiz B. final test

9. It is not a fashionable restaurant because the sign in the window reads “ ______.”

A. Closed Mondays B. Come as you are

10. As we entered the room, a delicate essence greeted our ______.

A. nostrils B. ears SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS Pg 3

Exercise 2. Fill the blanks in column A with the required synonyms and antonyms, selecting them from column B.

Column A Column B

______1. antonym for old-fashioned chief

______2. synonym for fiendish incidentally

______3. synonym for prime denouement

______4. synonym for story fashionable

______5. antonym for benevolence convey

______6. synonym for unravelment incongruity

______7. synonym for impart essence

______8. antonym for consistency anecdote

______9. synonym for casually malice

______10. synonym for perfume demoniacal USING FEWER WORDS Pg 4

Exercise 3. Replace the italicized words with a single word from the vocabulary list.

Vocabulary List

prime demoniacal fashionable incidentally incongruity malice essence anecdote denouement convey

1. By the way, did anyone call while I was out? 1. ______

2. How can you claim to be a sensible person if you do not understand the basic nature of human relations? 2. ______

3. Their service is excellent and their meats are first in quality. 3. ______

4. We have no time for a long story, but any short narrative about an interesting or amusing event will be appreciated. 4. ______

5. After bringing home $75 worth of food from the supermarket, Bill and Agnes decided to go out for dinner. What a strange lack of accordance with what is reasonable! 5. ______

6. There are important details that you neglected to make known to us. 6. ______

7. As the plot thickens, you will naturally have some clues of your own about the final solution. 7. ______

8. The hoodlums overturned all the garbage cans in the area in their desire to inflict unjustified suffering just for the satisfaction of doing it. 8. ______

9. Their behavior was abnormal, outrageous, and influenced by an evil spirit.. 9. ______

10. Most young people hate to wear clothes no longer in style. 10. ______IDENTIFICATION Pg 5

Exercise 4. Read the following statements. Then complete each sentence by inserting the most appropriate proper name from these statements.

A lengthy telephone conversation with Charlotte prevented Howard from completing the novel on which he was to be tested the next morning.

The detectives investigating the Before entering a neat, prosperous theft gave most of their attention home, Snopes would deliberately to Gladys because they know she make his boots as filthy as possible had sustained heavy losses in so that he might soil the carpeting. the stock market.

We made Lois tell us again how she handled the situation when a patient leaving the dentist’s office put on her coat – Lois’s – by mistake.

Approaching the shopping mall by a Cindy’s vague letter from the new route, Enid happened to notice a resort she was staying at gave so shoe shop that she had been few details that we had no idea of completely unaware of. what her vacation was like.

When Peter asked Rose, who grows tomatoes, why she keeps buying tomatoes in the supermarket, she explained that here were not ripe yet.

Armand liked to wear what he was Mark, who has applied to several comfortable in, even if it was not colleges, called this morning to what everyone else was wearing. say he had good news.

Seven-year-old Ingrid, forbidden to go on the outing with her friends, went raging into her room and overturned everything. Pg 6

1. ______was eager to convey something.

2. ______had no burning desire to be fashionable.

3. ______was unaware of the denouement.

4. ______explained a seeming incongruity.

5. ______obviously was a person of malice.

6. ______related an anecdote.

7. ______became a prime suspect.

8. ______learned of something incidentally.

9. ______behaved in a demoniacal fashion.

10.______failed to communicate the essence of an experience. ROOTS AND DERIVATIVES Pg 8

Exercise 1. From the list of roots and derivatives, choose a synonym for the italicized word or expression and write it in the space provided.

1. Our early ancestors used crude tools. 1. ______

2. She is a (an) person of great skill with a tennis racquet. 2. ______

3. Some spiteful rival is inventing lies about me. 3. ______

4. Among elderly patients, pneumonia has a high rate of occurrence. 4. ______

5. Your plan is fundamentally the same as ours. 5. ______

Exercise 2. Fill each blank with the word from the roots and derivatives that best fits the context.

1. In ceramics he is a demon; he can ______the most enchanting shapes from a piece of clay.

2. Punctuation marks are ______; they convey meaning.

3. To seal the wood, apply a good ______as an undercoat.

4. Mrs. Arp has a good memory for incidents and is able to give visiting parents a (an) ______account of their children’s work.

5. Though Mr. Becker is in excellent health, he can no longer do the strenuous work that he did in his ______.

6. Elmer and I generally agree; our views are ______.

7. The covered wagon, by modern standards, was a primitive ______.

8. Carmela is such an able assistant that the department head may ______her as his successor.

9. The President had been so well briefed by his advisers that he ably answered all questions on the topic of the press conference, as well as ______questions.

10.The protester, ______described as demoniac by his political enemies, was as sane as your or I.