1. Unit Five: Chapter 26 condone furtive contemplate gape feasible pathetic feign precedent fiscalpunitive

2. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. 1 condone Condone means A. to excuse. B. to recall. C. to punish. – verb I cannot condone Elaine’s smoking in public. It threatens other people’s health. Teachers may overlook it when you’re three minutes late. But they are not going to condone your walking into class a half hour late.

3. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. 1 condone Condone means A. to excuse. B. to recall. C. to punish. – verb I cannot condone Elaine’s smoking in public. It threatens other people’s health. Teachers may overlook it when you’re three minutes late. But they are not going to condone your walking into class a half hour late. If Elaine’s smoking threatens other people’s health, one could not excuse it. In the second item, the word overlook suggests that condone means the opposite—”to excuse.”

4. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. 2 contemplate – verb Contemplate means A. to consider. B. to pretend. C. to avoid. Whenever Anne’s husband drank too much, she would contemplate separation, but then she would feel guilty for thinking about leaving a sick man. Because Ben hadn’t studied for the test, he contemplated cheating. He quickly realized, however, that the eagle-eyed teacher would spot him.

5. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. 2 contemplate – verb Contemplate means A. to consider. B. to pretend. C. to avoid. Whenever Anne’s husband drank too much, she would contemplate separation, but then she would feel guilty for thinking about leaving a sick man. Because Ben hadn’t studied for the test, he contemplated cheating. He quickly realized, however, that the eagle-eyed teacher would spot him. In the first item, the word thinking is a clue that contemplate means “to consider.” In the second item, if Ben was worried that the teacher would catch him, he must have been considering cheating.

6. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. 3 feasible It isn’t feasible for me to work full time and keep the house clean unless someone helps me with the cleaning chores. Maya told her supervisor, “It just isn’t feasible for this staff to do the work of the two people who were fired. You need to hire more people.” – adjective Feasible means A. wrong. B. legal. C. possible.

7. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. 3 feasible It isn’t feasible for me to work full time and keep the house clean unless someone helps me with the cleaning chores. Maya told her supervisor, “It just isn’t feasible for this staff to do the work of the two people who were fired. You need to hire more people.” – adjective Feasible means A. wrong. B. legal. C. possible. It isn’t possible to work full time and keep the house clean. If the supervisor needs to hire more people, it must not be possible for the current staff to do all the work.

8. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Since I had heard about my surprise party, I had to feign shock when everyone yelled, “Surprise!” You can feign a head cold by pretending you’re too stuffed up to pronounce an l, n, or m. Try it by saying, “I have a code id by dose.” 4 feign Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Feign means A. to wish for. B. to prove. C. to fake. – verb

9. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Since I had heard about my surprise party, I had to feign shock when everyone yelled, “Surprise!” You can feign a head cold by pretending you’re too stuffed up to pronounce an l, n, or m. Try it by saying, “I have a code id by dose.” 4 feign Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Feign means A. to wish for. B. to prove. C. to fake. – verb If the speaker had already heard about the party, he or she would have to fake being shocked. In the second item, the word pretending suggests that feign means “to fake.”

10. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Fiscal means A. emotional. B. financial. C. unfair. 5 fiscal – adjective The gift shop closed because of fiscal problems. It simply didn’t make enough money to cover its expenses. Some states have passed laws allowing child-support payments to be taken directly from the paychecks of divorced parents who ignore their fiscal responsibility to their children.

11. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Fiscal means A. emotional. B. financial. C. unfair. 5 fiscal – adjective The gift shop closed because of fiscal problems. It simply didn’t make enough money to cover its expenses. Some states have passed laws allowing child-support payments to be taken directly from the paychecks of divorced parents who ignore their fiscal responsibility to their children. If the gift shop didn’t make enough money to cover its expenses, it must have closed because of financial problems. In the second item, the words payments and paychecks suggest that fiscal means “financial.”

12. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Furtive means A. sneaky. B. dependable. C. serious. At the football game, a guard in the stands noticed the furtive movement of a thief’s hand toward a spectator’s pocket. According to experts, teenagers who are furtive about where they are going and with whom may be involved with drugs. 6 furtive – adjective

13. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Furtive means A. sneaky. B. dependable. C. serious. At the football game, a guard in the stands noticed the furtive movement of a thief’s hand toward a spectator’s pocket. According to experts, teenagers who are furtive about where they are going and with whom may be involved with drugs. 6 furtive – adjective A thief would be sneaky when attempting to pick someone’s pocket. And teenagers who are involved with drugs would be likely to be sneaky about where and with whom the who they are spending time. They would hope to keep secret what they are really up to.

14. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Gape means A. to yell. B. to appreciate. C. to stare. Everyone stopped to gape at the odd-looking sculpture in front of the library. Because drivers slowed down to gape at an accident in the southbound lanes, northbound traffic was backed up for miles. 7 gape – verb Cows gaping at the camera

15. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Gape means A. to yell. B. to appreciate. C. to stare. Everyone stopped to gape at the odd-looking sculpture in front of the library. Because drivers slowed down to gape at an accident in the southbound lanes, northbound traffic was backed up for miles. 7 gape – verb If the sculpture was odd-looking, people would be likely to stare at it. Drivers always slow down to stare at an accident; the resulting slowdowns are known as “gaper delay.” Cows gaping at the camera

16. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Pathetic means A. ordinary. B. miserable. C. expensive. That plumber’s work was pathetic. Not only does the faucet still drip, but now the pipe is leaking. Health care in some areas of the world is pathetic. People are dying of diseases that are easily treatable with modern medicine. 8 pathetic – adjective

17. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Pathetic means A. ordinary. B. miserable. C. expensive. That plumber’s work was pathetic. Not only does the faucet still drip, but now the pipe is leaking. Health care in some areas of the world is pathetic. People are dying of diseases that are easily treatable with modern medicine. 8 pathetic – adjective If the original problem is not fixed and a new one has developed as a result of the plumber’s work, his does miserable work. If people in some areas are dying of easily treatable diseases, the health care in those areas must be miserable.

18. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Precedent means A. a question. B. a delay. C. a model. To set a precedent, the teacher gave the student who stole the exam an F for the entire course. “Others will think twice before they do the same,” he explained. When Jean’s employer gave her three months off after her baby was born, a precedent was set for anyone else in the company who became a parent. 9 precedent – noun

19. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Precedent means A. a question. B. a delay. C. a model. To set a precedent, the teacher gave the student who stole the exam an F for the entire course. “Others will think twice before they do the same,” he explained. When Jean’s employer gave her three months off after her baby was born, a precedent was set for anyone else in the company who became a parent. 9 precedent – noun By giving the student an F for the course, the teacher was creating a model that would make other students think twice about cheating. In the second item, giving Jean three months off created a model for how the company would handle employees who became a parents.

20. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Punitive means A. punishing. B. forgiving. C. uneven. 10 punitive Judge Starn is especially punitive with drunken drivers, giving every one of them a jail term. Many parents find that reward is a better basis for teaching children than punitive action is. – adjective

21. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Punitive means A. punishing. B. forgiving. C. uneven. 10 punitive Judge Starn is especially punitive with drunken drivers, giving every one of them a jail term. Many parents find that reward is a better basis for teaching children than punitive action is. – adjective If Judge Starn gave every drunk driver a jail term, he was especially punishing. In the second item, the word reward suggests that punitive action means the opposite—”punishing” action.