<p> Vocabulary Week 16</p><p>1. chastise-v. to punish; to criticize severely; to scold</p><p>2. demagogue-n. a leader who stirs up people by appealing to their emotions; a rabble-rouser</p><p>3. deplore-v. to feel very sorry about; to regret deeply; to lament; to disapprove of</p><p>4. detriment-n. damage; harm; injury; anything that causes damage or injury</p><p>5. emanate-v. to issue from; to originate from</p><p>6. harbinger-v. to announce; to indicate what will follow; n. a forerunner; a herald</p><p>7. intercede-v. to plead, or petition, on another’s behalf; to act as a mediator in a dispute</p><p>8. irrevocable-adj. not capable of being retracted, recalled, or withdrawn; unalterable</p><p>9. obnoxious-adj. very disagreeable; highly offensive; hateful</p><p>10.prevaricate-v. to evade the truth</p><p>11.villain</p><p>12.soluble</p><p>13.nickel</p><p>14.nuisance</p><p>15.propaganda</p><p>16.reversible</p><p>17.leisurely</p><p>18.inoculate</p><p>19.epitome</p><p>20.facsimile PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ON THIS PAPER Vocabulary Week 16 Practice</p><p>1. “Didn’t Shaw’s plays ______a change in modern drama?” Janell asked. “His were the first plays to indicate that ‘the action is in the language . . . not in the unrolling of plot.”</p><p>2. Alan, true to form, started arguing with Janell about her question, and Mr. Durand had to step in and settle the dispute. He ______by saying, “Shaw didn’t develop that type of drama, but he certainly did his share to popularize it.” </p><p>3. “We may wonder how so many great plays issued from just one man, but just think of all the plays that ______from the mind of Shakespeare.” </p><p>4. “How many others ______my decision?” Mr. Durand asked. “Or do you approve of it and agree that we can us the time today to talk generally about Shaw and Saint Joan?”</p><p>5. “I don’t mean to be a ______—Isn’t that what you said a rabble-rouser is called?—but I read the play in the time you gave us, and I don’t think it’s fair to give others more time,” said Alan, our unofficial class upstart. </p><p>6. “Mr. Durand, do you think Joan of Arc’s story appealed to Shaw because her fate was so ______?” Ima asked. “I mean, being burned at the stake is pretty final.”</p><p>7. “That’s an ______idea,” Micah said, obviously offended. “It wasn’t Saint Joan’s death but her life that interested and inspired Shaw—and that led to her being named a saint.” </p><p>8. “How many of you have finished reading Saint Joan?” Mr. Durand asked. “I won’t ______you today if you haven’t, but I may scold you if you haven’t finished it by tomorrow.”</p><p>9. “I’m sure there is no ______, or harm, done to those studious few who have read the entire play and its fascinating preface.”</p><p>10. One thing we all admired about Joan was that when asked to renounce her visions, she refused. She could have ______rather than being so direct. chastise demagogue deplore detriment emanate harbinger intercede irrevocable obnoxious prevaricate</p><p>Write your own sentence for each pattern</p><p>11. S V DO; S, DO (omitted verb) OR S V Complement; S, Complement (omitted verb)</p><p>12. S V Key Term—Repeated Key Term OR S V Key term, Repeated Key Term</p><p>Determine whether each sentence is correct or incorrect. </p><p>13. I have brown hair, Joey, red.</p><p>14. I’m going to KU after graduation; my friend, K-State.</p><p>15. I dream of a peaceful world—a world with no pain.</p>