Chapter One
All of the restaurant’s desserts were fattening, so I chose another ____________________. I had a frozen fruit bar at home instead.
Alternative
Job opportunities are most numerous in _________________ areas. Thus many people have no choice but to live surrounded by the concrete, metal, and glass of the city.
Urban
Please erase all of those bad words from the classroom desk. You must ________ them.
Delete
My teacher tells me to write down all of my day's activities in this.
Agenda
a conclusion drawn from logical reasoning, or an educated guess based on prior knowledge.
inference
To get me to ____________________ with her demands, my sister threatens to tell my boyfriend what I said after our first date: “Bo-ring!”
Comply
To ______________________ their stores against the coming hurricane, beachfront shopkeepers nailed boards over the windows.
Fortify
We had a party to raise the school spirt.
Morale
I was bitten by a snake and needed this or I would die.
Antidote
anything that you can read, write, or view
Text
Because they’re not eager to ____________________ that cockroaches are among their residents, Germans refer to the “German cockroach” as the “Russian roach.”
Acknowledge
Many homeless people cannot find a place of ______________________ from wintry weather.
Refuge
After Joe smashed the headlights of the family car, he hoped his parents would be
______________________. Instead, they grounded him until he paid for the damage.
Lenient
My mother cannot cook, all of her food is so this.
Bland
stated clearly and directly
explicit
Every day, polluters get away with dumping thousands of pounds of plastic into the sea. Clearly, we need more ____________________ penalties to make them stop.
Drastic
The Olympic swimmer had to ____________________ his gold medal when officials discovered that he had taken illegal muscle-building drugs.
Forfeit
When Lily started her job, she was ____________________ enough to think the other salespeople would be cooperative. However, she soon learned some people would stab her in the back for a sale.
Naive
Stop telling me all of those stories, they are not this.
Relevant
evidence found within a particular text used to support or explain conclusions. Back it up, prove it.
textual evidence
Every day, polluters get away with dumping thousands of pounds of plastic into the sea. Clearly, we need more ____________________ penalties to make them stop.
Drastic
The zoo had to ______________________ one baboon who was attacking the others. He was put in his own cage in another building.
Isolate
Abraham Lincoln is sometimes called “Honest Abe” because of his reputation for ___________________.
Integrity
All ads for political candidates contain _____________. Which political candidates would pay to spread information that did not support their campaign?
Propaganda
a detailed examination
analysis