Review Units 1-3
Vocabulary for Comprehension
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e
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d
c
7. a
8. b
9. c
10. c
11. d
12. d
Grammar in Context
Error is listed along with the incorrect sentence. Second line is a correct sentence.
1. Sentence fragment: The larger a city is the more trash.
The larger a city is, the more trash it produces.
2. Sentence fragment: Recycling many items in the city where we live.
People are recycling many items in the city where we live.
3. Comma splice: Airborne dioxins disperse, they eventually reach humans through the
food chain.
Airborne dioxins disperse, and they eventually reach humans through the food
chain.
4. Correct as is: If you wish to create less waste, consumer fewer products.
5. Comma splice: Not paying attention to recycling rules is foolish, it’s also against the
law.
Not paying attention to recycling rules is foolish; it’s also against the law.
6. Comma splice: We know what happens to old newspapers, what happens to old train
cars and airplanes?
We know what happens to old newspapers, but what happens to old train cars
and airplanes?
7. Comma splice: That book about how some companies near Boston polluted a river
and made people in the neighborhood sick was made into a movie, did you see it?
That book about how some companies near Boston polluted a river and made
people in the neighborhood sick was made into a movie. Did you see it?
Two-Word Completions
1. d
2. b
3. d
pilfering…expulsion
dissenters…jeer
pauper…lucrative
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c
b
a
a
debris…salvage
rifts…altercations
surmount...circumspect
condone…dissolute
Choosing the Right Meaning
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abridge
cumbersome
breach
eminent
diffuse
reduce
slow-moving
violation
jutting
rambling
Antonyms - opposites
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tantalize
erratic
unflinching
lucrative
obesity
expulsion
cherubic
gratify
constant
wavering
unprofitable
emaciation
admission
impish
8. muddle
9. relinquish
10. condone
11. unbridled
12. salvage
13. diffuse
14. fortify
15. trite
16. rift
neatness
keep
condemn
restrained
abandon
concentrate
undermine
original
reconciliation
Word Associations
1. alien
2. altercation
3. circumspect
4. commandeer
5. dissolute
6. brigand
7. terminate
8. salvage
9. efface
10. surmount
11. feint
12. opinionated
13. dilemma
14. terse
15. dissent
16. fodder
17. deadlock
18. marauder
19. condone
20. irate
citizen of a foreign country
noisy, heated quarrel
careful to consider all possibilities
seize for military purposes
loose in one’s morals or behavior
one who lives by plunder or robbery
bring to a conclusion
rescue property in danger
make indistinct by wearing away
rise superior to
distract attention from the intended point of attack
holding stubbornly to one’s own judgment
choice between two undesirable courses of action
without unnecessary words
differ in opinion
something to be consumed
bring to a standstill
one who invades the territory of another
wink at
characterized by anger