Fill in the Blanks
Place one of the new words in each of the blanks below
- Wayne’s parents yelled at him because he was known as a delinquent.
- The courts will penalize you if you don’t obey the law.
- Are you satisfied with your vocation or are you thinking of getting a different job?
- Five persons were being questioned by the police about the brutal* homicide.
- I acknowledged the fact that I received the tapes.
- When Steve asked his girlfriend to marry him, he did not anticipate* that she would _ _
him. - The warden of the prison set up stricter rules.
- Mrs. Fried’s spouse came home weary* after each day’s work.
- It is often unstable persons who commit serious crimes.
- Clara felt as if she had been deprived of the better things in life.
- Justice was served when the villain* was put behind bars.
- joseph was the beneficiary of large sums of money from his uncle’s insurance policy.
Matching
Match the 12 new words in Column I with the definitions in Column II.
- warden – c. person in charge of a prison
- penalize – h. declare punishable by law or rule
- justice – k. fair dealing
- delinquent – f. a criminal
- vocation – j. occupation
- spouse – i. husband or wife
- homicide – a. murder
- acknowledge – b. admit to be true
- unstable – d. not firmly fixed
- beneficiary – g. person who receives benefit
- reject – I. refuse to take, use, believe, grant, etc.
- deprive – e. take away from by force