Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop Level A Unit 8 Answers

Vocabulary Workshop Level B Review Units 10-12 Answers

Vocabulary for Comprehension Anwer Key

1. A – Inform about African Americans' early struggles to end injustice
2. A – Paragraph 1
3. C – Sickness
4. B – Search
5. D – A better life
6. B – Condition
7. E – Disgraceful
8. C – Arbitrary
9. D – Admiration
10. B – Wrote countless editorials
11. D – They lectured all across the country
12. D – Paragraph 4

Click Next for Two-Word Completions Answers

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Two-Word Completions Anwer Key

1. C – overture . . . pact
2. B – dilapidated . . . clutter
3. D – status . . . notorious
4. C – mulling . . . veto
5. C – hearth . . . narrative
6. A – nomadic . . . quest
7. A – abundance . . . surplus

Click Next for Choosing the Right Idiom Answers

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Choosing the Right Idiom Anwer Key

1. g – a readiness to quarrel or find fault
2. c – I don’t know any more about the subject being discussed than you do
3. j – what unforeseen events will occur later
4. a – it’s your turn; it’s time for you to make a decision or make a move
5. b – untamed, uncivilized
6. h – watch for
7. d – makes me feel crazy
8. f – watch carefully
9. e – made the exactly right point
10. i – listen to me

Click Next for Writing with Idioms Answers

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Writing with Idioms Anwer Key

1. A chip on one’s shoulder
Meaning: To hold a grudge or be easily angered because of past experiences.
Example: Ever since he was passed over for the promotion, Jake has had a chip on his shoulder at work.

2. Brush up on
Meaning: To improve or refresh one’s knowledge or skills.
Example: I need to brush up on my math skills before the exam.

3. Learn the ropes
Meaning: To learn how to do a particular job or task.
Example: It took me a few weeks to learn the ropes at my new job.

4. Living on borrowed time
Meaning: To continue living after a point when one was expected to die or fail.
Example: After his heart surgery, he felt like he was living on borrowed time.

5. Keep your chin up
Meaning: To stay positive and hopeful during tough times.
Example: I know you failed the test, but keep your chin up and try again.

6. Run circles around
Meaning: To outperform someone easily.
Example: Sarah runs circles around her classmates in science.

7. Toot your own horn
Meaning: To brag about one’s achievements.
Example: I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but I did finish the project early.

8. Over the top
Meaning: Excessive or exaggerated.
Example: His reaction to the joke was completely over the top.

9. Put up a fight
Meaning: To resist or fight back.
Example: The team put up a fight but still lost the game.

10. Smell a rat
Meaning: To suspect something is wrong or dishonest.
Example: I smell a rat in his story about being late.

11. Until the cows come home
Meaning: For a very long time.
Example: We could argue about this until the cows come home, but it won’t change anything.

12. Out of steam
Meaning: To be tired or exhausted.
Example: I was running fast, but I ran out of steam in the last lap.

Click Next for Shades of Meaning Answers

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Shades of Meaning Anwer Key

1. hospitable → +
2. clutter → –
3. quest → +
4. abound → +
5. botch → –
6. narrative → 0
7. emblem → 0
8. lair → 0
9. adequate → 0
10. morbid → –
11. cache → +
12. surplus → +
13. vindictive → –
14. status → +
15. hearth → +
16. infamous → –

Click Next for Expressing the Connotation Answers

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Expressing the Connotation Anwer Key

1. negative – (lethargic, unhurried) → lethargic
2. neutral – (vagrant, nomadic) → nomadic
3. negative – (havoc, disorder) → havoc
4. neutral – (illness, malady) → illness
5. positive – (satisfactory, adequate) → satisfactory
6. positive – (recipient, beneficiary) → beneficiary
7. positive – (surplus, glut) → surplus
8. negative – (futile, ineffective) → futile

Click Next for Challenge: Using Connotation Answers

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Challenge: Using Connotation Anwer Key

1. Innumerable (replacing many)
   Sample response: Innumerable is a stronger word with a positive connotation that creates a tone of awe.
2. Shirk (replacing avoid)
   Sample response: Shirk is a word with a more negative connotation than avoid. It casts a worse light on the person who doesn’t want to do the work.
3. Heartrending (replacing sad)
   Sample response: Heartrending is a more emotionally powerful word than sad and makes the episode sound more dramatic.

Click Next for Classical Roots Answers

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Classical Roots Anwer Key

1. Notify – to point out, give notice of, inform
   We will notify our attorney of your intention to sue us.
2. Notary – a public official who certifies statements and signatures
   The notary public witnessed the signing of Grandfather’s will.
3. Noteworthy – remarkable, outstanding because of some special excellence ("worthy of being recognized")
   The senator made noteworthy remarks about the importance of reducing air pollution.
4. Notations – a record; a note to assist memory; a set of symbols or expressions
   Good students often write notations in the margins of books.
5. Notion – an idea; a foolish idea or opinion; a small useful item
   She has the odd notion that no one in her class likes her.
6. Notoriety – ill fame; being famous for something bad
   Jesse James achieved notoriety as an outlaw in the Old West.
7. Connotes – to suggest or imply in addition to giving an exact meaning
   The name Angela means “angel,” but it also connotes goodness.
8. Denote – to indicate, be the sign of, mean exactly
   The child’s high temperature and chills denote severe illness.