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VCR A Lesson 13
VCR A Lesson 13 7th
| Word | Definition | Sentences |
|---|---|---|
| CELER | swift | |
| accelerate | To cause faster movement; to go faster. | Jeff Gordon ___________ on the last lap to pass Jimmy Johnson and win the Daytona 500. |
| celerity | swiftness; quickness; speed. | The Road Runner is known for his __________ in outwitting Wile E. Coyote. |
| CURRO | to run | |
| CURRERE | to run | |
| CUCURRI | to run | |
| CURSUM | to run | |
| CURSOR | to run | |
| CURSOR | runner | |
| CURSORIS | runner | |
| concur | To agree; to cooperate. | I would have to _________ with you that the Boston Red Sox are the best baseball team ever. |
| discourse | Conversation. A formal discussion of a subject in speech or writing. | There has been much _________ in the past weeks over Barak Obama and Hilary Clinton. |
| incur | To meet with; to run into; to bring upon oneself. | Mark __________ an injury to his neck when he crashed his mountain bike. |
| precursor | Forerunner. | In order to go to high school, students must pass __________ classes in 8th grade. |
| succor | Help in time of distress. | The nuns at the abby in Austria offered ______to the von Trapp family as they tried to escape Austria during WWII. |
| GLOMUS | ball | |
| conglomeration | A collection of unrelated things. | The sundae was a ____________of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream over a fudge brownie, sprinkled with heath bar bits, topped with whipped cream and a cherry. |
| JACIO | to throw | |
| JACERE | to throw | |
| JECI | to throw | |
| JACTUM | to throw | |
| abject | Humiliating and miserable. | I am glad to reach the end of this day that was filled with _________torture-I got gum in my hair, fell off the bus, spilled all my books everywhere, my lunch opened and was stepped on and my skirt ripped-all before first block. |
| conjecture | An opinion formed from inconclusive evidence; a guess. | The ________of my parents was that I shouldn't be allowed to go to the movie because their friend said that the movie was "not for people of my age"-it made no sense! |
| interjection | A word or phrase sometimes inserted between other words, often expressing emothion; a work not linked grammatically to other words in a sentence. | "Leaping Lizards!" That frog is HUGE. "Wow!" "No way!" and it is pink! |