Vocab
What does transgress mean??
To go beyond or over set limits, to break a rule.
What does Obituary mean?
Notice of a death with biological info.
What does exodus mean?
Mass departure or emigration.
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Many writers have described ______ of Venice, its canals and granolas, its squares and palaces.
Ambience
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The ______ in The Secret Garden where lonely Mary Lennox discovers a hidden garden begins a story of friendship, believable magic, and the will it live.
Episode
What does transitive mean??
Describing an action carried from subject to verb to object, needing a direct object to complete the meaning of the verb.
What does transient mean?
Passing quickly, transitory.
Staying only for a short time.
What word goes in this sentence?
According to the Bible, Adam and Eve ___________ God's command when they ate fruit from the tree of knowledge.
Transgressed.
The _____ of Harriet Beecher Stowe included mention of her nine children and her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Obituary.
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The Spanish civil war in the 1930's caused a ________ of refuges escaping to France.
Exodus.
What does transitory mean?
Lasting for only a short while.
What does aberration mean?
Straying from what is normal or accepted.
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The following sentence contains a ________ verb: "The tornado destroyed the town"
Transitive.
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Canada geese are only _____ in the Midwest resting on there migration to the north.
Transient.
What does translucent mean?
Permitting light to pass through, but not transparent.
What does erratic mean?
Irregular or inconsistent in movement, habit, quality, or ideas
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In comedy, problems are _______ misfortune ends and conflicts are resolved.
Transitory
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Their 4th daughter became a lawyer and ______ in this family of doctors.
Aberration
What does Ambience mean?
Environment, the surrounding atmosphere.
What does episode mean??
An incident in a person's life or in a story or play.
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Sunlight through the _______ stained glass windows made colorful designs on the white walls.
Translucent
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Because Alice meets so many strange characters like the Queen of Hearts, and the Mad Hatter, her journey through wonderland is highly ______.
Erratic