New words
abandon — leave without planning to come back +
keen — sharp, eager, intense +
jealous — afraid that the one you love might prefer someone else +
tact — ability to say the right thing +
oath — a promise that something is true +
vacant — empty, not filled +
hardship — something that is hard to bear +
gallant — brave, showing respect for women +
data — facts, information +
unaccustomed — not used to something +
bachelor — a man who has not married
qualify — become fit, show that you are able
Place one of the new words in each of the blanks below.
- As I looked at all the qualify the salesman showed me, I knew that I was getting more and more mixed up.
- I used tact when I told my fat uncle that his extra weight made him look better.
- When the guard saw that the cot was vacant, he realized that the prisoner had left the jail.
- Although he took an oath on the Bible, Sal lied to the jury.
- My aunt was so jealous of our new couch that she bought one just like it.
- I enjoyed reading the story of the gallant man who put his cloak over over a mud puddle so that the queen would not dirty her feet.
- The loss of Claudia’s eyesight was a hardship which she learned to live with.
- The driver was forced to abandon his car when two of the tires became flat.
- Betty could not data for the Miss Teenage America Contest because she was twenty years old.
- The blade was so keen that I cut myself in four places while shaving.
- Unaccustomed to being kept waiting, the angry woman marched out of the store.
- Because he was a bachelor, the movie actor was invited to many parties.