Vocabulary Workshop Level C Review Units 1-3 Answers

Wordly Wise 3000 Book 11

Fourth Edition - Answer Key

Lesson 7

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7A Understanding Meanings

p. 73

(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)

1. To pulverize rock is to grind it into powder.
2. C
3. A cavalier response is one that shows little or no concern.
4. C
5. To presage an event is to foretell its occurrence.
6. C
7. Kinetic energy is energy related to motion.
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. To careen is to move rapidly, lurching and swaying.
12. Etymology is the study of word origins.
13. Contiguous sections are those sharing a common border.
14. A frenetic movement is frantic and frenzied.
15. C

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7B Using Words

p. 74

1. a. pulverize b. pulverized
2. a. undulate b. undulate c. undulate
3. a. cavalier b. cavalier c. cavalier
4. a. repulse c. repulsed
5. b. careened c. careened
6. a. correlation c. correlation
7. a. presage c. presage
8. b. contiguous

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7C Word Study: Similar Meanings

p. 76

• 1. repulsed
• 2. —
• 3. repelled
• 4. —
• 5. assuage
• 6. satisfy
• 7. acquiesce
• 8. comply

• 9. —
• 10. —
• 11. penitent
• 12. sorry
• 13. intervene
• 14. interpose
• 15. —

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7D Images of Words

p. 77

• 1. c
• 2. a, b, c
• 3. a
• 4. a, b, c
• 5. c

• 6. a, b
• 7. b, c
• 8. b, c
• 9. a, b
• 10. a, b

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7E Vocabulary in Context

p. 78

(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)

1. It is a combination of two Japanese words meaning harbor and wave.
2. All three are contiguous to the Pacific Ocean and are vulnerable to earthquakes.
3. The Pacific is an area of great seismic activity.
4. If the plates grind against each other, it can cause an upheaval. If this occurs on the ocean floor, a tsunami may be created.
5. The kinetic energy of a tsunami can be tremendous, creating waves that travel hundreds of miles per hour and walls of water a hundred feet high.
6. The kinetic energy is distributed through the depth of the ocean waters, causing only mild undulations.
7. Seismologists monitor a large area and correlate the data they obtain about earthquakes to predict in which direction the waves might go. Because there are so many variables, this science seems like it would be difficult to understand.
8. Sample response: People who are dismissive of the danger probably won't help with evacuation efforts and may influence others to ignore warnings as well.
9. When the needles on the sensing instruments show frenetic activity, seismologists know an earthquake has occurred somewhere.
10. Seawalls may be able to repulse some of the water, but with a powerful tsunami, the walls themselves may be pulverized.

End of Lesson 7