1. Daily Language Practice Grade 10 – Week 9
1. To attract customers merchants ocasionly pose live models next to mannequins they can’t talk, smile, twitch or move a muscle.

2. Vocabulary – Week 9
impresario – one who presents cultural series; organizer
extortion – getting money by treats
adverse- unfavorable, harmful
asset – a valuable thing to have
bigot – a narrow-minded, prejudiced person

3. Daily Language Practice Grade 10 – Week 9
2. He remembered the word silhouette while cutting a shape from the black paper and began to wonder where it came from.

4. Vocabulary – Week 9 blatant – disagreeably loud; very showy
entourage – group of attendants
virulent – full of hate; harmful
venom – poison; spite; malice
spew – throw up; vomit; eject

5. Daily Language Practice Grade 10 – Week 9
3. In the book Once upon a time when we were Colored, he describes hisself growing up as an african american in Mississippi during the 1950’s.
(The author of this book is Clifton Taulbert.)

6. Vocabulary – Week 9 loath – unwilling; reluctant
solicit – to beg; seek earnestly
astute – keen; shrewd
advocate – to be in favor of; to support
ineffectual – not effective

7. Daily Language Practice Grade 10 – Week 9
4. As Sonja and myself loaded new software onto her computer, it made a grinding noise that reminded her and I of the time she stripped the gears on her Mother’s car.

8. Vocabulary – Week 9 scrutinize – examine closely
nefarious – villainous; vicious
amicable – friendly; peaceful
vexatious – annoying
malady - disease

9. Daily Language Practice Grade 10 – Week 9
5. As the train rounded the dangerous curve on a specially dezigned rail it tipped inward slightly but remained stable.