Group 3 Vocabulary Definitions

1. Group 3 Vocabulary Definitions • Abhorrent= hateful • Admonish= warn • Ambrosial= delicious • Confine= imprison • Decade= 10 years • Detonate= explode • Ephemeral= short-lived • Gullible= easily deceived • Haggle= argue • Immerse= place in liquid • Insomnia= sleeplessness • Lapse= mistake • Probe= investigation • Render= give • Repast= meal • Replenish= refill • Score= 20 • Snub= insult • Sutures= stitches • Unwittingly= unintentionally

2. Pretest 3: “Commonsense” Contexts • Admonished means warned or scolded. • Repast means meal. • Replenished means refilled. • Insomnia means sleeplessness. • Rendering means giving. • Score means 20. • Decade means 10 years. • Sutures means stitches. • Gullible means easily deceived. • Confined means imprisoned. • Probe means investigation. • Haggle means argue. • Lapse means mistake. • Ephemeral means short-lived. • Abhorrent means hateful. • Snub means insult. • Unwittingly means unintentionally. • Detonated means exploded. • Immersed means placed in liquid. • Ambrosial means delicious.

3. Exercise 2.14 • Their fame was ephemeral. • She is an insomniac. • The shoppers were haggling. • Were the stitches removed? • No one likes confinement. • He is very gullible. • Unwittingly, I snubbed you. • We abhor their behavior. • Has your policy lapsed? • The offenders were admonished.

4. Exercise 2.18 • We respected them, but they treated us with __________. • If yellow is __________ to you, choose another color. • Many windows were shattered by the __________. • Liz read the poem beautifully, but your __________ was even better. • Gregg was so __________ in his book that he didn’t see us enter. • A team of experienced __________ is investigating the crash. • If you are king or queen for a day, your glory will be __________. • Most authors are soon forgotten, but a few achieve __________ fame. • The rebellious inmate was put into solitary __________. • It was his first warning. Never before had he been __________.