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Wordly Wise 3000 Book 12

Fourth Edition - Answer Key

Lesson 13

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13A Understanding Meanings

p. 144

(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)

1. C
2. A foible is a small fault or weakness.
3. C
4. C
5. To exhume something is to dig it out of the ground or to recover it.
6. To extirpate something is to destroy it completely.
7. C
8. C
9. C
10. A dilettante is a person with a superficial knowledge of a field of study.
11. To descry something is to discern it.
12. C
13. C
14. To adjure someone is to advise the person to do something.
15. A portal is a door or entrance, which is usually large.

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13B Using Words

p. 146

1. b. portal
2. a. exhume c. exhume
3. a. abut b. abuts
4. a. restitution
5. b. extirpated c. extirpate
6. b. propitiated
7. b. descry
8. b. adjured c. adjured

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13C Word Study: Word Parts

p. 147

(Possible answers; students' definitions may vary.)

1. omniscient, all-knowing
2. exculpate, to clear from alleged guilt
3. heterogeneous, differing in kind or in its parts
4. apotheosis, a raising to a godlike state
5. viviparous, producing living young rather than eggs
6. peripatetic, going around on foot
7. obloquy, an utterance of denunciation
8. equivocal, unable to decide between two choices
9. extirpate, to wipe out
10. colloquy, a conversation on a serious subject

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13D Images of Words

p. 149

1. c
2. c
3. a, b, c
4. b
5. a, b
6. No sentence suggests restitution.
7. b
8. a, c
9. a
10. b

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13E Vocabulary in Context

p. 150

(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)

1. It could be considered an act of restitution for previous attempts to extirpate Native American culture.
2. The museum is near the spot where the Lenape descried the ships of the first European settlers.
3. Congress chose a site that abuts the National Air and Space Museum.
4. The portals of the old Custom House lead visitors into the museum today.
5. Many say his collecting was merely a rich man's foible, and he remained a dilettante when it came to understanding Native American culture.
6. The Heye foundation became insolvent.
7. Many Native Americans believed returning the objects helped propitiate spirits that had been wounded by the desecration of the treasures.
8. At school she was adjured to speak English and beaten if she spoke in her native tongue.
9. The speaker's remark suggests a jocose tone.

End of Lesson 13