Tuesday, 1/18/99
Copy Homework into assignment book.
Writing warm up.
Editors will edit on Thursday. 600 words due!
Vocabulary:
As I took a long and (1) ______________ route home from school (I just
wanted to see some new sights), I noticed the (2)___________ smell of liver
and onions (3)______________(ing) from an old, (4)_____________ house
that looked ready to fall down. Obviously the people inside were
poor--actually, completely (5)______________ --to be living in such
depressing (6)_____________ . But, even though I usually hate liver and
onions, the smells coming from this ramshackle house were
(7)______________.

(8) Before you begin a test, always _________ the directions from beginning to
end.
(9) The old man was so ______ you could see his bones through his skin.
(10) Since he spent his whole life being ________(ed) in the culture of France,
he seemed more French than American.
       pungent, splendid, peruse, circuitous, emanate, gaunt, steep,
                       dilapidated, squalor, destitute

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