What is the anser to Vocabulary Practice
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Matching: Match the word on the left with the correct definition on the right. Use dictionary. com if you need help!

1. roan A. set in your ways, not changing, not flexible
2. fierce B. the way a horse walks
3. gorge C. burning hot
4. junipers D. a horse with a hair color that is mixed with white
5. courtesy E. a deep valley, almost like a canyon
6. underestimate F. strong, mean, tough
7. gait G. easily startled, not calm
8. stubborn H. tall, thin trees with few branches
9. scorching I. to think too little of something or someone
10. skittish J. manners, being polite to others

Correct or Incorrect? Mark each blank with a “C” if the sentence uses the word correctly or an “I” if the sentence uses the word incorrectly.

1. Cloyd ran off after he opened the gait to Walter’s property.

2. If Walter was rich, he could roan Cloyd some money to start his own ranch.

3. Cloyd knows he has messed up in life, but he doesn’t want Walter to underestimate how hard he can work.

4. Walter will need to cut down some junipers to make fence posts out of.

5. The Utes respect bears even though they can be fierce animals.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Read the excerpt from rena's promise: two sisters in auschwitz. “i have a favor to ask of you, andrzej . . this is very difficult for me, but i must ask. it is no longer safe in tylicz for rena. her mother and i are worried for her safety every day.” “i heard what happened last night, mr. kornreich. i understand your concern.” “i have no money to pay you for this favor.” “sir, i would not take any money from you. she is my friend since childhood. i will do whatever you ask to your daughter.” “ you.” papa paused, stroking his chin where his beard should have been. “you seem like a man of your word. if you would bring rena across the border to slovakia, her mother and i might find sleep at night.” which best summarizes the excerpt? although he does not trust andrzej, rena’s father fears for his daughter’s life and finally agrees to leave her with him. slovakia is the only safe place for the jews of europe, and andrzej has agreed to take rena there. rena’s father asks andrzej to take her to safety in slovakia, and he agrees to do so. after much deliberation, rena’s father pays a polish man to take her safely across the border to slovakia. mark this and return

Explain the effect of the rhetorical questins for the below paragraph."i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were beiing burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i waas back in the room of my childhood, with my "