Wordly Wise 3000 Book 12
Fourth Edition - Answer Key
Lesson 11
📜 Academic Honor Code
These answers are provided strictly for educational support and self-checking. Please use them responsibly to verify your understanding and learn from your mistakes, not as a shortcut for cheating. True learning comes from the effort you put in!
11A Understanding Meanings
p. 120(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)
- C
- C
- A supplicant is one who pleads for something.
- C
- C
- Obloquy is the denunciation of shameful actions.
- C
- To temporize is to avoid purposely an action or a decision in order to gain time.
- C
- A filial relationship is one between a parent and a child.
- To fulminate is to attack verbally.
- A nugatory matter is one of no consequence.
- C
- C
- C
Click Next for 11B Using Words
<><>
11B Using Words
p. 121-
a. polemic c. polemics
-
a. nugatory b. nugatory
-
a. confreres c. confreres
-
a. palpable b. palpable c. palpable
- b. supplicate
- a. obloquy
- a. convoke
-
a. peruse c. peruse
Click Next for 11C Word Study: Similar Meanings
<><>
11C Word Study: Similar Meanings
p. 123- —
- abrogate
- abolish
- waive
- forego
- —
- —
- infinitesimal
- diminutive
- replete
- full
- —
- —
- parity
- equality
Click Next for 11D Images of Words
<><>
11D Images of Words
p. 124- b
- a, c
- a
- a, b
- b
- c
- b
- No sentence suggests polemic.
- a
- b, c
Click Next for 11E Vocabulary in Context
<><>
11E Vocabulary in Context
p. 125(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)
- The senator from Oregon fulminated that giving women the vote would "make every home a hell on earth."
- The amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was passed by the Senate.
- It states that they were getting fractious in the stifling summer heat.
- She didn't hesitate to put pressure on her son with her direct message: "Vote for suffrage."
- He feared their obloquy, should he vote according to his beliefs.
- Women would have been denied legal parity with men on voting rights.
- He perused his mother's letter.
- She appealed to his filial devotion.
- Harry Burn's vote rendered their efforts nugatory.
- It states that the tension in the chamber was palpable.
- "A cacophony of mingled cries of shock and joy, cheers and jeers, applause and hisses erupted."
- They invited no women to the convocation that certified the Nineteenth Amendment.
- It expresses a forced attempt at jocularity.
End of Lesson 11
