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Daily Language Practice Grade 10 – Week 24

Daily Language Practice Grade 10 – Week 24. 1. Fewer than 20 percent of an avg. adult male weight come from his bones. Vocabulary Grade 10 – Week 24. anthropologist – (n) an expert in the study of the races, beliefs, customs, etc. of mankind bizarre – (adj) odd, peculiar, strange, weird

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Daily Language Practice Grade 10 – Week 24

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  1. Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 24 1. Fewer than 20 percent of an avg. adult male weight come from his bones.

  2. Vocabulary Grade 10 – Week 24 anthropologist – (n) an expert in the study of the races, beliefs, customs, etc. of mankind bizarre – (adj) odd, peculiar, strange, weird inanimate – (adj) lifeless fetish – (n) an object that is thought to have magic powers artifact – (n) an object made by hand, rather than a thing as it occurs in nature Idiom: to get down off a high horse – to act like an ordinary person

  3. Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 24 2. A baby is likely to have 300 bones at berth but she will have only 206 bones as a adult as humans grow, their bones fuse.

  4. Vocabulary Grade 10 – Week 24 taboo – (adj) forbidden by custom or religious practice imprudent – (adj) unwise; not careful prohibition – (n) the act of forbidding certain behavior imperative – (adj) urgent, necessary, compulsory taint – (n) contamination, undesirable substance that spoils something Idiom: the first water – of the best quality, the greatest

  5. Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 24 3. The famous “running of the bulls” in Pamplona Spain was popularized buy Ernest Hemingway in his novel Fiesta.

  6. Vocabulary Grade 10 – Week 24 universal – (adj) present everywhere contemptuous – (adj) expressing a feeling that something is worthless absurd – (adj) ridiculous bigot –(n) a person who is intolerant of other people or ideas abhor – (v) to detest, to despise Idiom: dyed-in-the-wool– set in one’s ways

  7. Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 24 4. In 1894, the first major auto race was held on a coarse between Paris and Rouen France a steam driven car with a top speed of 11 miles per hour won the race.

  8. Vocabulary Grade 10 – Week 24 vulnerable – (adj) capable of being injured entreaty – (n) appeal, plea tradition – (n) custom that has been handed down originate – (v) to begin; arise inviolable – (adj) safe from destruction Idiom: blue chip – a highly valuable asset, stock, or property

  9. Daily Language PracticeGrade 10 – Week 24 5. In February, 1927, Babe Ruth hit one hundred twenty-five home runs in one hour, before an exhabition game in Los Angeles.

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