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Chapter 17
➤ Sentence Check 1
Using the answer line provided, complete each item below with the correct word from the box. Use each
word once.
a. exhort
f. masochist
b. flamboyant
g. meticulous
c. foible
h. rancor
d. innocuous
i recrimination
J? Do we think a flying mouselike creature is
e. magnanimous
repugnant
1. Why is it that bats seem so
distasteful, or do we associate bats with vampires?
2. It was
of the Greens to forgive the driver who ran over their dog.
3. Battered women who stay with their abusive partners aren't necessarilys;
they don't enjoy being hurt, but often they can't see any way to escape.
4. Although nail-biting is only a
it can become maddening to a
companion who observes it day after day.
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5. Before the football game, the coach gave a fiery pep talk. He______(e)d the
players to fight for the honor of the team and the school.
such as milk or wheat,
6. To an allergic person, foods that are normally
can cause discomfort and even serious illness.
between the two women finally came to an end
7. The long-standing
when one of them fell and the other rushed over to help her.
8. The angry neighbors traded s: "Your wild kids trampled all over my
flower bed!" "Well, your crazy dog dug up my lawn!"
9. Some jobs needn't be done in a(n) way. For instance, why sweep every
speck of dust off a floor that's only going to get dirty again in an hour?
10. On New Year's Day in Philadelphia, string bands called "Mummers" strut
their stuff in costumes designed to outshine all other bands in the parade.
NOTE: Now check your answers to these questions by turning to page 178. Going over the answers carefully will help
you prepare for the next two practices, for which answers are not given.
➤Sentence Check 2
Using the answer lines provided, complete each item below with two words from the box. Use each word
once.
1-2. My second-grade teacher had stringent standards. For one thing, she
(e)d us to be about our handwriting. "Dot every i," she would
say, "and cross every t."
3-4. In a small business, it's important never to instigate quarrels or let
develop. People must learn to be
and forgive each other's errors.
5-6. Many find the thought of a seeking out and enjoying suffering to be
as the idea of causing someone else to suffer.
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