English/Schwartz
“Powder” Vocabulary Practice
First, complete the crossword, using each vocabulary word as an answer once.
I can't reproduce the crossword puzzle here, so just a list of the clues (you can match them up to their words to practice, I suppose!)
Across
2. to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts
5. wrinkled, crumpled, tousled
6. a grating sound (as a verb, to scrape roughly, to grate upon)
7. to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent
9. submissive, acquiescent, having given up to something
10. burdened, loaded down
Down
1. without interest or concern
3. reddened, blushing, glowing
4. thinly scattered, not thick, not many
8. a view or prospect, esp. one seen through a long, narrow avenue or passage, as between rows of trees or houses.
Next, fill in the blanks, using each vocabulary word once.
1.
When she was awarded the top prize of the contest, Helen ____________________
with pride.
2.
I couldn’t help but ____________________ when it got to be midnight and my son
was not yet home.
3.
Jared emerged from the trunk of the car
looking rather ____________________.
4.
Out in the desert, trees are quite ____________________
5.
Stacey walked out the library, her arms ____________________ with several heavy
books.
6.
I felt ____________________ about whether the Red Sox would win the big game.
7.
The students tried to ____________________ their teacher into moving back the
vocabulary quiz.
8.
Seeing that she would not move the quiz, the students became
____________________ and started studying.
9.
The dying man let out a final ____________________ after naming his murderer.
10.
As we traveled by train, we could
appreciate the many stunning ____________________ of the Italian countryside.