Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 10

1. Mr. Singh our ancient-history teacher learned us that the new names for Siam, Mesopotamia, and Persia were Thailand, Iraq, and Iran.

Vocabulary – Week 10

inclement – (adj.) unfavorable, stormy

peruse – (v.) to read or study carefully

premonition – (n.) a forewarning

desist – (v.) to cease

recoil – (v.) to draw back

Idiom: “to pay the piper”

Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 10

2. Not all people in the World considers black to be the color fore mourning, in china and in moslem countries, mourners ware white.

Vocabulary – Week 10

pertinent – (adj.) to the point; relevant

mastiff – (n.) a large dog

obsess – (v.) to haunt, preoccupy

doleful – (adj.) sad; melancholy

wan – (adj.) sickly pale

Idiom: “on the carpet”

Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 10

3. Neither my Mother nor my Father have the answer to why tennis balls are fuzzy. Or why golf balls have dimples.

Vocabulary – Week 10

histrionics – (n.) a display of emotions

elusive – (adj.) hard to grasp

frustrate – (v.) to counteract; foil; thwart

symptomatic – (adj.) having to do with signs or symptoms; indicative

interject – (v.) insert; interrupt

Idiom: “to show one’s hand”

Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 10

4. Blue and white are the most popular high school colors but are rock or country the most popular music.

Vocabulary – Week 10inert – (adj.) without power to move

salient – (adj.) outstanding; prominent

imminent – (adj.) likely to happen; threatening

squeamish – (adj.) easily shocked; overly sensitive

engrossed – (adj.) absorbed

Idiom: “ to tilt at windmills”

Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 10

5. When a person shivers, they increase the muscular activity in there bodys and that helps them warm up.