Reviewing Learned Words

(1) His gloom was now compounded by the failing mark on his geometry now.

(gloom): a feeling of great sadness and lack of hope

 - (Example) a time of high unemployment and economic gloom

(2) The annals of sports are replete with the names of great black athletes.

(3) One of the great paradoxes of American life is that through minority groups have suffered injustices, nowhere in the world have so many varied groups lived together so harmoniously.

(4) A tinge of garlic is all that's necessary for most recipes.

(5) A cruel king would not allow the prince to enter his realm restricting him to the forest, which abounded with wild animals.

 

Reading - Some Fish Eggs Can Hatch After Being Pooped Out by Swans

A question that’s often baffled scientists is how certain species of fish can sometimes appear—and even proliferate—in isolated bodies of water not previously known to harbor them. A new study has demonstrated that the most unlikely explanation might actually be correct: It’s possible they fell from the sky.

Long Reading - Rich People and Climate Change

Rich people don't just have bigger bank balances and more lavish lifestyles than the rest of us -- they also have bigger carbon footprints.

Reviewing Studied Words

(Examples for Recently Studied Words)

 

(1) The football game was replete with excitement and great plays.

(2) The eminent author received the Nobel Prize for literature.

(3) My cousin is so steeped in schoolwork that his friends call him a bookworm. ( = soaked, drenched, saturated)

(4) After skiing, I find that I have a voracious appetite.

(5) Modern warfare often results in the indiscriminate killing of combatants and innocent civilians alike.

 

combatant: someone who fights in a war

 

(6) The mayor refused to prognosticate as to his margin of victory in the election.

(7) The time is approaching when human workers may be replaced by automatons.

(8) A clever salesman will always ask a matron if her mother is at home.

(9) The western plains used to abound with bison before those animals were slaughtered by settlers.

(10) The man may be freed from backbreaking labor by the products of scientific technology.

 

In the following image, you can see a bison.

backbreaking: physically difficult and makes you very tired

Reading - An Ice Age Wolf Head Was Found Perfectly Preserved in Siberian Permafrost

Don’t lose your head in Siberia, or it may be found preserved thousands of years later.

A group of mammoth tusk hunters in eastern Siberia recently found an Ice Age wolf’s head—minus its body—in the region’s permafrost. Almost perfectly preserved thanks to tens of thousands of years in ice, researchers dated the specimen to