Wordly Wise 3000 Book 11
Fourth Edition - Answer Key
Lesson 1
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1A Understanding Meanings
p. 3(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)
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- An imperturbable person is very difficult to upset.
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- A subterfuge is a plan intended to deceive.
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- C
- A raconteur is skilled at telling stories.
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- To mortify someone is to thoroughly embarrass that person.
- Levity is a lack of seriousness.
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- An apocryphal event is one of dubious authenticity.
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1B Using Words
p. 4-
a. exuded c. exuded
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a. mortified b. mortified
- c. vacillated
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a. raconteur c. raconteur
- c. gesticulated
- c. apocryphal
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a. expedient b. expedient c. expedient
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b. convened c. convened
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1C Word Study: Similar Meanings
p. 6- vacillate
- waver
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- exudes
- emits
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- mysterious
- arcane
- spurious
- apocryphal
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- expedient
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- convenient
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1D Images of Words
p. 7- b
- b, c
- b, c
- b
- a, c
- a, b, c
- No sentence suggests vacillate.
- a, c
- a, b
- b, c
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1E Vocabulary in Context
p. 8(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)
- A storyteller may take too much time away from the auction and from selling the items.
- Several schools for auctioneers exist. One of the oldest convenes four times a year, with courses lasting for several days.
- It would be important for an auctioneer to be calm when the bidders exude excitement or when the bids are in very large amounts of money.
- It describes the story as apocryphal.
- Both need to develop good peripheral vision.
- A good auctioneer adds levity by telling amusing stories.
- They reiterate the last bid in their chants, along with the next price they want to hear.
- There is a lot more gesticulating in a public auction. A private art auction has less overt gesturing by the bidders.
- Sample response: One embarrassing experience might be vacillating too long to make a bid and losing something one wants. Another might be paying a very large sum for something that turns out to be of little value.
- An auctioneer often employs subterfuges to keep the auction interesting.
- The few details given suggest that you need to become informed of how things work to participate successfully in fine art auction houses.
- Bidders might make some gesture that they have prearranged with the auctioneer to mean they are stopping their bids on a certain item.
End of Lesson 1