A Time for Decision

Words in Use (Lesson 42)

• maintain
• snub
• endure
• wrath
• expose
• legend
• ponder
• resign
• drastic
• wharf
• amend
• ballot

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Where Do We Go from Here?

Words in Use (Lesson 41)

complacent
wasp
rehabilitate
parole
vertical
multitude
nominate
potential
morgue
preoccupied
upholstery
indifference

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Weight-watchers

Words in Use (Lesson 40)

• epidemic
• obesity
• magnify
• chiropractor
• obstacle
• ventilate
• jeopardize
• negative
• pension
• vital
• municipal
• oral

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Roast Beef on Rye

Words in Use (Lesson 39)

• unearth
• depart
• coincide
• cancel
• debtor
• legible
• placard
• contagious
• clergy
• customary
• transparent
• scald

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Gulliver’s Travels

Words in Use (Lesson 38)

• biography
• drench
• swarm
• wobble
• tumult
• kneel
• dejected
• obedient
• recede
• tyrant
• charity
• verdict

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Listen to Smokey the Bear

Words in Use (Lesson 37)

• heir
• majestic
• dwindle
• surplus
• traitor
• deliberate
• vandal
• drought
• abide
• unify
• summit
• heed

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A Helping Hand

Words in Use (Lesson 36)

• prompt
• hasty
• scorch
• tempest
• soothe
• sympathetic
• redeem
• resume
• harmony
• refrain
• illegal
• narcotic

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Summer Travel

Words in Use (Lesson 35)

• vague
• elevate
• lottery
• finance
• obtain
• cinema
• event
• discard
• soar
• subsequent
• relate
• stationary

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A Course for Parents

Words in Use (Lesson 34)

• candidate
• precede
• adolescent
• coeducational
• radical
• spontaneous
• skim
• vaccinate
• untidy
• utensil
• sensitive
• temperate

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Don’t look over My Shoulder!

Words in Use (Lesson 33)

• volunteer
• prejudice
• shrill
• jolly
• witty
• hinder
• lecture
• abuse
• mumble
• mute
• wad
• retain

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How Our Language Grows

Words in Use (Lesson 32)

• refer
• distress
• diminish
• maximum
• flee
• vulnerable
• signify
• mythology
• colleague
• torment
• provide
• loyalty

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Record Holders

Words in Use (Lesson 31)

• commuter
• confine
• idle
• idol
• jest
• patriotic
• dispute
• valor
• lunatic
• vein
• uneventful
• fertile

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Bible Zoo

Words in Use (Lesson 30)

• depict
• mortal
• novel
• occupant
• appoint
• quarter
• site
• quote
• verse
• morality
• roam
• attract

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Camp Safety

Words in Use (Lesson 29)

• toil
• blunder
• daze
• mourn
• subside
• maim
• comprehend
• commend
• final
• exempt
• vain
• repetition

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What Did You Have for Breakfast?

Words in Use (Lesson 28)

• outlaw
• promote
• undernourished
• illustrate
• disclose
• excessive
• disaster
• censor
• culprit
• juvenile
• bait
• insist

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Problems We Face

Words in Use (Lesson 27)

• despite
• disrupt
• rash
• rapid
• exhaust
• severity
• feeble
• unite
• cease
• thrifty
• miserly
• monarch

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Some Tall Tales

Words in Use (Lesson 26)

• possible
• compel
• awkward
• venture
• awesome
• guide
• quench
• betray
• utter
• pacify
• respond
• beckon

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Love and Marriage

Words in Use (Lesson 25)

• architect
• matrimony
• baggage
• squander
• abroad
• fugitive
• calamity
• pauper
• envy
• collapse
• prosecute
• bigamy

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Punishment for Drug Abuse

Words in Use (Lesson 24)

• fierce
• detest
• sneer
• scowl
• encourage
• consider
• vermin
• wail
• symbol
• authority
• neutral
• trifle

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Handling Poisonous Snakes

Words in Use (Lesson 23)

• reptile
• rarely
• forbid
• logical
• exhibit
• proceed
• precaution
• extract
• prior
• embrace
• valiant
• partial

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A New Way to Treat Prisoners

Words in Use (Lesson 22)

• warden
• acknowledge
• justice
• delinquent
• reject
• deprive
• spouse
• vocation
• unstable
• homicide
• penalize
• beneficiary

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Safety in the Air

Words in Use (Lesson 21)

• plea
• weary
• collide
• confirm
• verify
• anticipate
• dilemma
• detour
• merit
• transmit
• relieve
• baffle

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A Home Where the Buffalo Roam

Words in Use (Lesson 20)

• emerge
• jagged
• linger
• ambush
• crafty
• defiant
• vigor
• perish
• fragile
• captive
• prosper
• devour

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Protecting Our Health

Words in Use (Lesson 19)

• harvest
• abundant
• uneasy
• calculate
• absorb
• estimate
• morsel
• quota
• threat
• ban
• panic
• appropriate

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The Challenge* of the Small Car

Words in Use (Lesson 18)

• tragedy
• pedestrian
• glance
• budget
• nimble
• manipulate
• reckless
• horrid
• rave
• economical
• lubricate
• ingenious

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A Cup of Coffee?

Words in Use (Lesson 17)

• appeal
• addict
• wary
• aware
• misfortune
• avoid
• wretched
• keg
• nourish
• harsh
• quantity
• opt

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A Valuable Discovery

Words in Use (Lesson 16)

• slender
• surpass
• vast
• doubt
• capacity
• penetrate
• pierce
• accurate
• microscope
• grateful
• cautious
• confident

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John Dewey High School; Brooklyn, New York

Words in Use (Lesson 15)

• expand
• alter
• mature
• sacred
• revise
• pledge
• casual
• pursue
• unanimous
• fortunate
• pioneer
• innovative

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Roller Derby

Words in Use (Lesson 14)

• unruly
• rival
• violent
• brutal
• opponent
• brawl
• duplicate
• vicious
• whirling
• underdog
• thrust
• bewildered

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Flying Saucers Again

Words in Use (Lesson 13)

• journalist
• famine
• revive
• commence
• observant
• identify
• migrate
• vessel
• persist
• hazy
• gleam
• editor

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The Electric Auto Is on Its Way

Words in Use (Lesson 12)

• ignite
• abolish
• urban
• population
• frank
• pollute
• reveal
• prohibit
• urgent
• adequate
• decrease
• audible

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The Famous Monster of the lake

Words in Use (Lesson 11)

• evidence
• solitary
• vision
• frequent
• glimpse
• recent
• decade
• hesitate
• absurd
• conflict
• minority
• fiction

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Bet on the Blond

Words in Use (Lesson 10)

• evidence
• solitary
• vision
• frequent
• glimpse
• recent
• decade
• hesitate
• absurd
• conflict
• minority
• fiction

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More About the Guitar

Words in Use (Lesson 9)

• vicinity
• century
• rage
• document
• conclude
• undeniable
• resist
• lack
• ignore
• challenge
• miniature
• source

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The Guitar

Words in Use (Lesson 8)

• exaggerate
• amateur
• mediocre
• variety
• valid
• survive
• weird
• prominent
• security
• bulky
• reluctant
• obvious

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The Frozen Future

Words in Use (Lesson 7)

• exaggerate
• amateur
• mediocre
• variety
• valid
• survive
• weird
• prominent
• security
• bulky
• reluctant
• obvious

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The Health of Your Car

Words in Use (Lesson 6)

• approach
• detect
• defect
• employee
• neglect
• deceive
• undoubtedly
• popular
• thorough
• client
• comprehensive
• defraud

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