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Daily Language Practice Grade 10 – Week 22. 1. Chariot races gladiator fights mock sea battles all these was popular events in the famous Colosseum of Ancient Rome. Vocabulary Grade 10 – Week 22. juxtapose – (v) to place side by side plight – (n) predicament; dangerous situation
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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 22 1. Chariot races gladiator fights mock sea battles all these was popular events in the famous Colosseum of Ancient Rome.
VocabularyGrade 10 – Week 22 juxtapose – (v) to place side by side plight – (n) predicament; dangerous situation covert – (adj) secret; hidden cope – (v) to be a match for; to be able to handle incompatibility – (n) quality of being mismated; lack of harmony Idiom: plea bargain – to agree to plead guilty to a lesser charge so as to avoid trial for a more serious offense
Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 22 2. Our solar system complete with the sun and planets are traveling acrost the Milky Way at about 180 miles per second.
VocabularyGrade 10 – Week 22 incapacitated – (adj) disabled; made unfit fabricate – (v) to concoct; create; lie connubial – (adj) related to marriage demur – (v) to object appellation – (n) a name Idiom: in apple pie order – in neat order, good condition
Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 22 3. At the age of 26, while working in a swiss patent office as a clerk, the Theory of Relativity was developed by Albert Einstein.
VocabularyGrade 10 – Week 22 escalation – (n) an increase; intensification indifference – (n) lack of concern potential – (adj) possible cumulative – (adj) accumulated recondite – (adj) secret, hidden, obscure Idiom: apple polishing – trying to gain favor by gifts or flattery
Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 22 4. The fresh water frozen in earths frozen glaciers are hypothesized or estimated to be equal to about 60 years rainfall over the whole, entire planet.
VocabularyGrade 10 – Week 22 palliate – (v) alleviate, relieve without curing delude – (v) to fool prelude – (n) introduction chimerical – (adj) visionary, imaginary, fantastic acknowledge – (v) to admit Idiom: the Draconian Code – a very severe set of rules and penalties (usually death)
Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 22 5. In the hispanic culture, some people consider Tuesday an unlucky day, perhaps because, the spanish word for Tuesday – martes – comes from Mars the roman god of war.