Daily Language Practice Grade 10

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 10

• 1. Mr. Singh our ancient-history teacher learned
  us that the new names for Siam, Mesopotamia, and
  Persia were Thailand, Iraq, and Iran.

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Vocabulary Week 10

• inclement (adj.) unfavorable, stormy
• peruse (v.) to read or study carefully
• premonition (n.) a forewarning
• desist (v.) to cease
• recoil (v.) to draw back
• Idiom to pay the piper

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 10

• 2. Not all people in the World considers black to
  be the color fore mourning, in china and in
  moslem countries, mourners ware white.

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Vocabulary Week 10

• pertinent (adj.) to the point relevant
• mastiff (n.) a large dog
• obsess (v.) to haunt, preoccupy
• doleful (adj.) sad melancholy
• wan (adj.) sickly pale
• Idiom on the carpet

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 10

• 3. Neither my Mother nor my Father have the
  answer to why tennis balls are fuzzy. Or why golf
  balls have dimples.

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Vocabulary Week 10

• histrionics (n.) a display of emotions
• elusive (adj.) hard to grasp
• frustrate (v.) to counteract foil thwart
• symptomatic (adj.) having to do with signs or
  symptoms indicative
• interject (v.) insert interrupt
• Idiom to show ones hand

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 10

• 4. Blue and white are the most popular high
  school colors but are rock or country the most
  popular music.

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Vocabulary Week 10

• inert (adj.) without power to move
• salient (adj.) outstanding prominent
• imminent (adj.) likely to happen threatening
• squeamish (adj.) easily shocked overly
  sensitive
• engrossed (adj.) absorbed
• Idiom to tilt at windmills

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Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 Week 10

• 5. When a person shivers, they increase the
  muscular activity in there bodys and that helps
  them warm up.