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Daily Language Practice Grade 10 – Week 19

This week's language practice for Grade 10 explores the age of the Milky Way, vocabulary related to power and deception, the end of the Civil War, and more.

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Daily Language Practice Grade 10 – Week 19

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  1. Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 19 1. sum scientists believe that our home galaxy the milky way is about 12,000,000,000 years old.

  2. VocabularyGrade 10 – Week 19 megalomania – (n) abnormal desire for wealth and power profligate – (adj) wasteful strife – (n) discord, disagreement legion – (n) a large number coup – (n) revolution idiom: to play possum – to try to fool someone into thinking you are asleep or dead

  3. Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 19 2. The Civil War came to an end in 1865 when Robert E Lee surrenders to Ulysses S Grant at appomattox Court House in Virginia.

  4. VocabularyGrade 10 – Week 19 amnesty – (n) a general pardon expatriate – (n) an exile exonerate – (n) to free from guilt fiat – (n) an official order, a decree mendacious – (adj) lying; untrue idiom: it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good – Someone usually benefits from another person’s misfortune

  5. Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 19 3. Tara and myself learned that a mirage is a optical allusion. Occurs in the dessert, in the arctic, and sometimes above hot pavement.

  6. VocabularyGrade 10 – Week 19 parsimonious – (adj) miserly pecuniary – (adj) financial dismantle – (v) to strip of covering; to take apart sumptuous – (adj) lavish underwrite – (v) agree to finance idiom: to know the ropes – to be fully acquainted with the procedures

  7. Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 19 4. Abraham Lincoln begun the gettysburg address by saying, fourscore and seven years ago, …

  8. VocabularyGrade 10 – Week 19 restrictive – (adj) harsh; confining balk – (v) to refuse to move blunt – (adj) plain spoken nostalgia – (n) yearning for the past rife – (adj) widespread idiom: behind the eight ball – in trouble

  9. Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 19 5. Fluorescent lightbulbs last thirteen time more long then regular incandescent bulbs.

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