Vocabulary List 11

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  1. 1. Soda and sugar companies make the _________ that large doses of sugar do not negatively impact one's health.
  2. 4. The best way to train a dog is to ________________ any positive behaviors as soon as they occur.
  3. 8. Benjamin Franklin's ______________, that electricity could be created and used, proved to be one of the most useful discoveries in the history of humanity.
  4. 11. Having to do with effective or persuasive use of language
  5. 12. Teachers confuse students by ______________ to historical figures they expect the students to know.
  6. 13. In his essay, Randy must _________ the opinions of several experts.
  7. 15. The Great Depression was _________________ by the stock market crash.
  8. 16. To _____________ how important it was to vote for the tax hike, he repeated it 18 times in his speech.
  9. 18. Surrounding sentences help to put the idea in ____________.
  10. 19. The __________ of the motivation speech was very upbeat and energetic.
Down
  1. 2. She hates my cooking. Although she is sweet about it and claims to like it, her disgust with it is ___________ in the faces she makes while eating it.
  2. 3. Sometimes, a story's theme is not stated directly in a clear sentence, but is instead ____________ throughout the feeling of the overall work.
  3. 5. He told his story in court, but when the judge asked him to ________________ he could not provide any additional information, making his story hard to believe.
  4. 6. Sometimes, no matter how __________ my directions are, you still somehow manage to get lost almost every time.
  5. 7. I argued that cloning humans would be a good idea, but her _________________; that we shouldn't because they may eventually take over, was very convincing.
  6. 9. You can ________ the meaning of the word from the context of the rest of the sentence.
  7. 10. Though he _______________ himself and relaxed and laid back, most people viewed him and stressed out and anxious.
  8. 14. She had an interesting _______________, and she made him think about things differently.
  9. 17. The Haitian community ______________ to charities and aid workers for relief after the destruction of the earthquakes.
  10. 18. Authors often use bright imagery and vivid figurative language to ________________ their readers' attention.