Vocabulary Warm Up Macbeth Act III

Directions: To turn in this assignments, click on "submit assignment" and then click on the "text entry" tab. In the text entry box you will number 1-8 for Exercise A and 1-7 for Exercise B. You need only to write the answers, you do not need to write or copy and paste the questions. You can also write the answers on a Word document or Google doc and upload the file, or write the answers on a sheet of paper, take a photo and upload the photo.

Exercise A: Fill in each blank below using the appropriate word from Word List A.

Word List A: absence, affliction, confined, custom, eternal, patience, remedy, summons

The kids loved to play hid and seek. It was their (1) ____________________ to gather in the park as soon as the sun went down. They would squeeze into small places, keeping themselves (2) ____________________ between rocks or under benches, hoping not to be seen or heard. Staying still and quiet required (3) ____________________. It also meant they could not cry out if they got a mosquito bite or were suffering from some other minor (4) ____________________. If the waiting was unbearable, the only  (5) ____________________ was to make a run for home base. There was one child who could outlast everyone else. The game could not end until Elizabeth was found, and sometimes the search went on for so long that it felt (6) ____________________. If it lasted too long, Elizabeth's mother would notice her daughter's ____________________ at dinner and would call out a stern (8) ____________________ to "Come home this instant!"

Exercise B: In each item, rewrite the sentence using a word from Word List B without changing the meaning of the sentence.

Word List B: acquaint, amends, disposition, encounter, jovial, mingle, posterity, revenge

Example: The dining hall is a good place for college students to interact.

The dining hall is a good place for college students to mingle.

1. After losing her friend's favorite DVD, the girl made up for it by replacing the disc.

2. The teenager did not expect to run into her mother at the mall.

3. Tim took a computer class so he could get to know the latest software programs.

4. Her boyfriend's family was always cheerful, so it was fun to visit them.

5. Mary's grandfather made a family tree for future generations, so everyone would know the family history.

6. In movies, the bad guys often want to get even with the good guys who sent them to prison.

7. The mother had a pleasant temperament and never raised her voice.