Monday, 11/16/09 - Late Start Schedule.
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Pretest 4A. Academic Words #4.
Warm Up. Euphemism (n - U FEM ISM):
A "nice" way of saying something (usually) unpleasant, or of making something sound more important than it is.
Examples: passed on = died, sanitation engineer = garbage man, waitress in the sky = flight attendant
  1. visually disabled =
  2. involuntary servitude =
  3. solid waste =
  4. landfill =
  5. economically disadvantaged =
  6. undocumented transborder migrant =
  7. vertically challenged =


The Giver. Chapter 2