1. 7 Week 5 • Abode (v): place where someone lives; home

2. Canny (adj): careful, cautious, prudent • Adv: cannily • Adj: Uncanny (odd, mysterious)

3. Yearn (v): to have a strong desire; to long

4. Retort (v): to reply, often in a sharp way • N: a reply; usually severe or witty

5. Persist (v): to continue a course of action; to endure • N:persistance • Adj: persistant • Adv: persistantly

6. Beseech (v): to beg urgently or earnestly; to implore • Adj: beseeching • Adv: beseechingly

7. Grueling (adj): exhausting; very tiring or severe • Adv: gruelingly

8. Preposition: usually small word that is ALWAYS followed by an object (noun or pronoun) that shows a relationship between that object and the rest of the sentence. • Think of a room full of chairs…and a kitty. • OVER the chair, UNDER the chair, AROUND the chair, THROUGH the chair, ON the chair, OFF the chair, BEYOND the chair, BENEATH the chair…