Wordly Wise 3000 Book 12
Fourth Edition - Answer Key
Lesson 6
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6A Determining Precise Meaning
p. 61- b
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- a
- b
- a
- a
- b
- b
- a
- b
- a
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- a
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6B Understanding Word Relationships
p. 63- a, b, d
- b, c
- b, c, d
- a
- a, c, d
- a, b, c
- b, c, d
- a, b, d
- c, d
- a, b, c
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6C Word Study: Analogies
p. 65- d
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6D Understanding Contextual Meanings
p. 66(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)
- Although Jo had lived in the village for twelve years, she was still treated as an interloper.
- C
- Kelp forests thrive in the brackish water of estuaries.
- The virus was endemic to South America.
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- Temperatures over 100°F make everyone torpid.
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6E Vocabulary in Context
p. 67(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)
- These are the first insidious signs of the disease, even though for many people such occurrences are normal and develop into nothing.
- She and her father carried out intense lobbying and fund-raising for research. Wexler participated in gathering the information needed to make the discovery of the gene itself.
- It could be the precursor to a cure.
- She completed her doctoral dissertation on this topic.
- It is described as brackish, which means somewhat salty.
- A person only acquires the disease through inheriting a gene from a parent.
- The passage says that, at first, the residents viewed Wexler as an interloper, someone who was interfering in other people's affairs.
- Symptoms that accompany the disease, such as loss of cognitive skills and appearing inebriated when not, are frightening. People need help to go forward.
- The people carrying the gene had intermarried. They were fecund, so there were more opportunities for the gene to appear.
- People whose parents have the disease must make the difficult decision about whether they themselves want to be tested for the gene.
End of Lesson 6
