Reading Keys - Vocabulary Practice 2

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Directions: Try your hand at filling in the blanks with one of the words from Vocabulary Handouts 1 or 2.


1.

No one on campus could prove that the basketball player had thrown the game, but everyone suspected it and he was as a result.

2.

The baby seemed by the back-and-forth movement of the mobile dangling over his head; seemingly soothed by the movement, he fell asleep.

3.

Dalton Trumbo wrote the novel Johnny Get Your Gun as a rebuke to , who in Trumbo’s eyes had no idea of how horrifying war really was.

4.

to the point of rudeness when it came to casual conversation, the writer was a gifted and even slightly long-winded public speaker.

5.

In an effort to head off rebellion, the managers labeled as any reorganization schemes that might diminish their own power.


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