Vocabulary Workshop Level C Review Units 1-3 Answers

Wordly Wise 3000 Book 11

Fourth Edition - Answer Key

Lesson 8

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8A Determining Precise Meaning

p. 85

• 1. a
• 2. a
• 3. a
• 4. b
• 5. a
• 6. a
• 7. b
• 8. b

• 9. a
• 10. b
• 11. b
• 12. a
• 13. b
• 14. b
• 15. a

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8B Understanding Word Relationships

p. 86

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

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

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8C Word Study: Word Parts

p. 87

(Definitions are examples; students' answers may vary.)

1. explicit, fully and clearly expressed
2. triumvirate, a powerful group of three
3. convivial, enjoying being with lively company
4. munificent, extremely generous
5. nascent, beginning to exist
6. perspicacious, clear-sighted
7. archipelago, a large group of islands
8. contiguous, close together or touching
9. soliloquy, a speech giving a character's thoughts
10. etymology, the history of words

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8D Understanding Contextual Meanings

p. 89

(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)

1. Billy the Kid was a renegade and has been the subject of many movies.
2. The strictures heaped on the mogul's offensive rhetoric were well deserved.
3. C
4. Eli delivered the soliloquy to an enthralled audience.
5. C
6. C
7. C
8. C
9. The priest addressed his votaries at the prayer session.
10. C

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8E Vocabulary in Context

p. 90

(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)

1. Polyneices tried to usurp Creon's throne. He was breaking the law.
2. Creon refused burial to another human being.
3. Creon refuses to change his edict.
4. Antigone hangs herself.
5. No. Because Prometheus was a god himself, his action of giving fire to humans was not violating something sacred.
6. Antigone was not a follower or devotee of Creon's ideas.
7. Medea murders her children.
8. Sophocles modified the vestments of his actors to express mourning for his colleague.
9. Sophocles expanded the number of actors, he added scenery, and his characters were very human.
10. Aeschylus's language in his dramas had a stately and noble cadence.
11. In the early works, the leader of the chorus and an actor spoke in soliloquies. Euripedes used several actors speaking in dialogue.
12. These three playwrights had a powerful influence on drama for hundreds of years after their time.

End of Lesson 8