Vocabulary Builder Course 7

Lesson 28:

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Introduction
Students have been introduced to words related to the history of crossword puzzles.

Lesson Description
Students will review lesson words by completing a crossword puzzle. To get directions, they can press the Instructions button in the lower left corner. If they need a hint, they can press the Word List button. After finishing the puzzle, they can check to see how they did.

Instructional Objectives

Students will review words related to the history of crosswords.
Students will match lesson words with their definitions.

Student Web Activity Answers
abstruse: hard to understand
aficionado: enthusiastic admirer; fan
capitulate: give up all resistance
compulsion: irresistible impulse to do something
ethics: standards of conduct
exasperate: irritate or annoy greatly
extirpate: destroy completely
ironic: opposite of what is expected
obscure: not well known
whimsical: fanciful or unpredictable

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