Level F Unit 8Task:

1. First, go through each sentence and fill in (on the lines) the first word that comes to your mind. Put a star * next to each slide where your first guess was a synonym for the word (check in the book).

2. Locate and highlight at least THREE instances of contrast signal words. Note the antonym by underlining it.

3. Standard RPS work: identify, make a key, and define each root, prefix, and suffix.

Acrimonious

• She whirled to face me when I spoke, and her answer startled me by its ____ bluntness.

• Vigorous debate is fine, but is there any real need for such unrestrained and ___ name-calling?

• There is often a thin line between the kind of debate that is spirited and that which Is ____ and nonproductive

bovine

• After I told him what had happened, he sat there with a ____ expression and said nothing.

• Although she seems rather plodding in her behavior and rarely becomes excited, I think it is unfair to call her “____”

• Their ____ stares and inability to understand the seriousness of the situation made me doubt their mental capacity

consternation

• His father looked at the mess with ____, hardly knowing what to say first.

• To the ____ of the people in the stands, the lion leaped from the cage and bounded toward the exit.

• Imagine our ___ when the brakes failed and we headed full speed toward the busy intersection!

corpulent

• Though she had grown ____ with the years, the opera singer’s voice and her way with a song were the same.

• People with a tendency toward being ____ must wage a lifelong struggle against rich foods.

• Not too long ago in our society, a ____ body was genuinely admired as a sign of prosperity.

disavow

• The suspect stubbornly continued to ____ any part in the kidnapping plot.

• Now that these ugly facts about his business dealings have come to light, I must ____ my support for his candidacy.

• The prisoner attempted to ____ his confession on the grounds that he had not been informed of his legal rights.

dispassionate

• Being a neighbor but not quite a family friend, he was called in to give a____ view of our plan.

• We have had enough of the high-powered, excited oratory; what we need now is a____ examination of the facts.

• Try your best to subdue your natural reluctance and make a ____ decision that will be in your son’s best interest.

dissension

• The political party was born by ____ and filally split into two wings.

• Far from presenting a unified front, the party is torn by all kinds of strife and _____.

• A certain amount of disagreement is healthy in any organization, but in our club ____ has become a way of life.

dissipate

• As chairman, he is free and open, but he ___ his energies on trivial things.

• Instead of using all their forces in one concerted attack on the enemy, they ____ their strength in many minor engagement.

• The estate he had inherited from his father was ____ in a long series of impractical and mismanaged business enterprises.

expurgate

• According to the unwritten law of journalism, the editor alone has the right to _____ the article.

• Thomas Bowdler ____ certain words from Shakespeare’s plays because he felt that they were unfit ‘to be read aloud in a family’.

• If we are going to be required to perform an ____ version of the play, then I think it is not worth doing.

gauntlet

• In the Middle Ages, a knight threw down his ____ as a challenge, and another knight picked it up only if he accepted.

• The bold candidate threw down the ____ and dared her opponent to face her with a television debate.

• The retiring coach said he no longer had the stomach to run the ____ of critics who assailed him at every loss.

hypothetical

• Science is not based on _____ assumptions, but on proven facts.

• Our discussion that day was a _____ one, based on the possibility--- still far from definite– that I would take the job.

• By reference to ___ cases, you may be able to clarify the difference between ‘murder’ and ‘manslaughter’ for the law students.

ignoble

• Most people will agree that a noble purpose does not justify ____ means.

• She is a person of such fine moral standards that she seems incapable of an ____ act.

• Far from being ____, her failure after making a valiant effort may serve as an inspiration to all young people.

Impugn

• You can ____ the senator’s facts, but you cannot accuse her of concealing her intentions.

• I am not trying to ____ his truthfulness, but I still do not see how the facts support his claims.

• It is not for me to ___ his motives, but how could anyone except an overambitious scoundrel have misled his friends that way?

intemperate

• Experience taught her to control her _____ outbursts of anger.

• Though her overall position seemed to be sensible, her language was so unrestrained and ____ that people would not support her.

• Though I was annoyed by the child’s behavior, the father’s outburst seemed to me deplorably _____.

odium

• Those eager to heap ____ on the fallen tyrant learned that he had escaped in the night.

• The ____ for this tragic failure does not belong to any individual or small group but to the community as a whole.

• My Spanish friend finds it hard to understand the ____ attached to bullfighting in most non-Hispanic countries.

perfidy

• Rulers in Shakespeare’s plays often find themselves armed atainst enemies but not against the ____ of their friends.

• Because Vidkun Quisling cooperated with the Nazis, his name has become a symbol of ____ in his home country of Norway.

• Aren’t you going a little far when you accuse me of ____ because I didn’t vote for you in the beauty contest?

relegate

• Even if they ____ him to a mere clerical job, he is determined to make his presence felt.

• The job of cleaning up the field and the stands after the big game was ____ to the freshmen.

• When Mr. Kummer saw my pathetically inept efforts to prepare a banana split, he ____ me again to the ranks of the unemployed.

squeamish

• If I am called ____for disliking the horror movie, what do we call those who say they liked it?

• Anyone as ____ as that trainee will have trouble accustoming himself to the sights, sounds, and smells of hospital work.

• I am not ordinarily ____ as a person, but the sight of that terrible auto accident haunted me for weeks.

subservient

• The officers were taught to be respectful of but not blindly ____ to their superior’s wishes.

• Under the American form of government, all branches of the military are clearly ____ to the civilian authority.

• I noticed with some distaste how her usually overbearing manner became ____ when our employer joined the group.

susceptible

• The trouble with being ____ to flattery is that you can never be sure that the flatterer is sincere.

• He is so _____ to flattery that with a few complimentary words I can get him to do almost anything I want.

Students who have been well trained in the social sciences should not be ____ to the cheap fallacies of racism.

PrefixRoot Suffix

Dis Saparation, apart

acri To make sour or bitter

Ine Characterized by

Hypo Under, below, less than

Corp body

Per Through, across, over

Vow Wish, commit

Pass

Sub Under, below

Pass Feeling, suffering

Purg Cleanse, purify

Pugn To fight, to puncture