"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind"
Rudyard Kipling, Speech
Words to Learn This Week
emerge
jagged
linger
ambush
crafty
defiant
vigor
perish
fragile
captive
prosper
devour
Read the following story to see how the new words are used in it.
A Home Where the Buffalo Roam
Even today in South Dakota a cowboy emerges from behind a jagged rock where he has lingered in ambush waiting for the crafty buffalo to appear. Although not wild-they are raised on vast ranches-the galiant, defiant bison need to be hunted with the same vigor cowboys showed a century ago. For a while, Americans thought the buffalo would perish from the earth; fortunately the buffalo is far from being such a fragile animal. Now more or less captive, the buffalo, an estimated 10,000, are raised for profit by ranchers who prosper from the sale of buffalo meat. When did you devour your last morsel of tasty buffalo meat?
Place one of the new words in each of the blanks below.
01. If we do not do something about pollution. we may _________ from this earth.
02. The _______ edge of that sheet of metal is very dangerous.
03. We were held _______ by the sinister enemy for ten days.
04. The bank teller's ________ plan to steal a million dollars didn't succed.
05. I like to ________ on until everyone else has left the theatre.
06. My parents taught me not to be ________ of authority.
07. Did _________ the of the Lebanese soldiers fail?
08. Business persons can _______ if they are honest with their customers.
09. A new star has just ________ from the rock music world.
10. I can ________ a steak in two minutes when I am hungry.
11. With a surprising show of ________ , the old woman swam up and down the pool six times!
12. A lack of calcium in Tyrone's diet caused his bones to be quite _________ .
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