Improving Vocabulary Skills

1. Improving Vocabulary Skills Chapter SIXTEEN

2. Matching words with definitions • In an opposite manner; in an altogether different way • The quality of a leader which captures great popular devotion; personal magnetism; charm • A search; pursuit • Widespread; common • To state to be so; claim; affirm • Modern; up-to-date • Someone who supports a cause • Emotionally moving; touching • Causing painful emotions, with possible long-lasting psychological effects • An outgoing, sociable person

3. Sentence check one charisma contemporary contend conversely extrovert poignant prevalent proponent quest traumatic • I study best in the morning. _____, my sister concentrates better at night. • Nancy is a(n)_____ by nature, but since she’s become depressed, she has avoided other people. • At the airport, I was very moved by the _____ reunion of family members who had been separated for years. • Underage drinking was so _____ in the fraternity house that college officials ordered the house closed for a year. • “This woman _____s that she was here before you,” said the supermarket checkout clerk. “Is it her turn now?”

4. Sentence check one charisma contemporary contend conversely extrovert poignant prevalent proponent quest traumatic • Felipe is a(n) _____ of exercising for good health. He even encourages his young children to swim or cycle every day. • Certain movie stars may not be great actors, but they have a(n) _____ that makes people want to see their films. • Abby didn’t like the apartment with the old-fashioned tub and radiators. She preferred a more _____ place. • Repeating third grade was _____ for my brother. It still pains him to think about it, even though he is a successful businessman now. • Over the past three hundred years, several people have gone on a(n)_____ for Noah’s ark. Some have looked for it in northeastern Turkey, on Mount Ararat, sixteen thousand feet above sea level.

5. Sentence check Two charisma contemporary contend conversely extrovert poignant prevalent proponent quest traumatic 1-2. Many people are surprised to learn how ____ poverty is in _____ America. Today, millions live below the poverty line, and the number seems to escalate daily. 3-4. Judy and Martin Reed exemplify the old saying “Opposites attract.” A(n) _____, Judy chooses work that brings her into constant contact with other _____, Marty prefers jobs in which he works alone. 5-6. Ever since the _____ experience of finding her twelve-year-old son dead from a drug overdose, Sophie has been a strong _____ of mandatory drug education in the public schools. If drug education isn’t required, she says, schools may cut corners and omit it. 7-8. My mother _____s that Romeo and Juliet is the most _____ story ever written, but my sister claims Love Story is more moving. 9-10. Mahatma Gandhi’s _____ and vision inspired millions of fellow Indians to join him enthusiastically in the _____ for peaceful solutions to national problems. Gandhi incorporated nonviolence and political activism into a highly effective method for social change: passive resistance.

6. Study five minutes for ch. 16 test. • charisma • contemporary • contend • conversely • extrovert • poignant • prevalent • proponent • quest • traumatic