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
120 Seconds continues!