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 * === **adventitious** === || === **edify** === || === **obfuscate** === ||
 * === **ambiguous** === || === **extenuate** === || === **optimum** === ||
 * === **bona fide** === || === **fecund** === || === **parochial** === ||
 * === **cataclysm** === || === **impale** === || === **pedestrian** === ||
 * === **deviate** === || === **importune** === |||| === **glower** === ||

Complete the practice exercises below, and email them to bhs[at]gmail[dot]com.

 * deviate || impale || glower || obfuscate ||
 * cataclysm || optimum || pedestrian || adventitious ||

**__Exercise 1__**
The_(1), two-hour lecture only (2) the students. They respected the guest speaker's experience, but every time she(3) from the complex topic, she added ten_(4) minutes to the harangue. The conditions of the auditorium were not_(5) for long lectures; the air conditioner was broken, and the heat and poor forced many students to fight drowsiness. One young man nearly (6) himself on a number two pencil when he nodded off while doodling in his notebook. He caught himself and quickly sat up straight; the speaker(7) at him for a few seconds, but never stopped speaking.

2. At the check-out line, Timmy(1) his mother to purchase a new brand of candy bar for him; however, her reaction was a(n)_(2) compared to her usual tolerant reactions to Timmy's requests. Everyone stared when Lynn screamed at Timmy and told him to return the candy bar and stop whining because no, he didn't need it. Before she snapped in the grocery store, Lynn had concealed her anxiety for a week. The rent check was later than it had ever been, and the landlord had a(n)_(3) view on financial matters. Lynn had already bought an extra week by reassuring him of her_(4) intention to pay the rent with her first paycheck, but the week had passed and she still hadn't found a job. The landlord had given her the usual speech about honoring a lease, apparently in an attempt to_(5) Lynn; however,no matter what the landlord thought, Lynn felt that losing her job without warning_ the extra time she needed to pay the rent. It was the landlord's_ tone that really bothered her; Lynn couldn't be sure if the landlord would continue being compassionate or if he would send an eviction notice upon finding no rent payment in his mailbox that morning. Lynn used the last of her cash to pay for the bread and cereal. She took Timmy's hand and left the store hoping to have a(n) day of job hunting. Complete the sentence in a way that shows you understand the meaning of the italicized vocabulary word. You may begin your sentence with the vocabulary word, followed by an ellipsis and your completion of the sentence. **You must add at least seven (7) words**: remember, we're trying to write eleventh grade sentences! See the model below.
 * bona fide || fecund || parochial || edify ||
 * extenuate || importune || ambiguous || impale ||
 * Exercise 2**
 * __Exercise 3__**


 * Model Sentence**
 * Sentence Stem: Todd's parents did not hide their //chagrin// after their son...
 * My response: chagrin...toilet papered the neighborhood and several neighbors complained.

1. Ralph wanted a //bona fide// New York cheesecake, so he..... 2. If you do not wait for //optimum// sailing conditions, you might... 3. The //ambiguous// quote caused contorversey because..... 4. Sheila, covered in food, //glowered// at the waiter after he.... 5. Nathan //impaled// an earthworm on the hook before he..... 6. Try not to //deviate// from the subject while you... 7. The formation of a pearl isan //adventitious// effect of.... 8. The //fecund// nature of the jungle..... 9. Alice thought that she could //edify// her son, but she knew that she could not when... 10. The car salesman //obfuscated// the dissatisfied customer so much that the customer.... 11. The uninsured woman //importuned// the hospital to.... 12. A //cataclysm// caused by an asteriod striking the earth would probably..... 13. The //pedestrian// television program was not worth.... 14. You cannot //extenuate// your bad habit of ..... 15. Martin had a //parochial// fear of travel, so it suprised everyone when he.....