Daily Language Practice Grade 10

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 12

• 1. The black widow spider is more harmfuler to
  humans then any other spider is.

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Vocabulary Week 12

• diatribe (n) bitter criticism
• inhibition (n) restraint
• fortuitous (adj) accidental
• incoherent - (adj) disjointed
• ilk (n) kind, sort

To wear ones heart on ones sleeve
- to make ones feelings evident
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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 12

• 2. Sawdust produces ice that is more stronger and
  safer then normal ice sprinkled on top of a pond
  as it freezes.

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Vocabulary Week 12

• prestigious (adj) illustrious
• placard (n) poster
• integral (adj) essential
• remuneration (n) reward pay
• nominal (adj) slight

To wash (or air) dirty linen in public
- to openly discuss private affairs
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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 12

• 3. Microwave ovens are popularer with colege
  students then with their parents.

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Vocabulary Week 12

• expunge (v) erase
• flamboyant (adj) showy, colorful
• anathema (n) something greatly detested
• schism (n) split
• utopia (n) place of perfection

To save face
- to avoid disgrace
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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 12

• 4. Tourists see many sites walking through times
  square in New York City.

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Vocabulary Week 12

• timorous (adj) fearful
• truncated (adj) cut short
• jaunty (adj) sprightly, gay
• fractious (adj) quarrelsome
• ostentatious - (adj) showy

Indian summer
- warm autumn weather
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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 12

• 5. Anyways my friend, if youre a male, your 70
  time more likelier to be color-blind than a
  female is.