Vocabulary Puzzles The Fun Way to Ace Standardized Tests

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Learning Definitions and Using Words in Context
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Word:
SANGUINE
Sentence 1:
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Sentence 2:
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Word:
SUFFICIENT
Sentence 1:
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Sentence 2:
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Vocabulary Puzzles
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Word:
THERAPY
Sentence 1:
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If necessary, return and complete the crossword puzzle in Step 1.
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Vocabulary Puzzles
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Puzzle 2
Step 1: Crossword Puzzle
Work on this crossword for no more than 15 minutes. If an answer does not occur to
you after you’ve given it some thought, move on. It is possible that you will not com-
plete the puzzle in the allotted time; it is not important that you do. What is important
is that you work at it conscientiously for the full 15 minutes.
Across
2. MOTIVATED PURELY BY
MONEY
8. Response to being famished*
10. Top Olympics medal
11. Despondent*
12. REMOVE FROM POWER
14. Courtroom event
15. DESTINY; FATE
18. What @ means, in Web addresses
20. Lubricate*
21. Hiatus*
22. Eschew*
24. FEELING OF EMBARRASSMENT
OR SHAME
26. Wrestler’s cushion
27. EXCLUDE; BANISH
29. “___ apple a day...”
30. Negative vote
31. RESPECT OR REVERENCE
GIVEN, AS TO A HERO
Down
1. DESOLATE; GRIM; HARSH
3. RESTRICTED TO A