Fill In Sentences:
Mark Twain
INSTRUCTIONS:
Fill in each blank box with the word from the above list that best completes the sentence.
exploited
subsequent
scald
lavish
literary
insufficiently
manuscript
correspondent
contracted
uproarious
pretensions
disposition
loathsome
apprentice
recollections
1. My brother and I have different of the same past event.
2. The news wrote a story based on the interview of the prime minister.
3. The audience laughed loudly at the
4. With of being grand ladies at a tea, the young girls talked quietly as they sipped water from teacups.
5. The store had stocked the sale items, and they soon were sold out.
6. Like Ben Franklin, Sam Clemens learned to set type when he was an .
7. Clemens used his articles in the book he wrote about his experiences abroad.
8. Some countries the resources of their colonies to make themselves wealthy.
9. The tables were filled with delicious foods for the party guests to enjoy.
10. Sam Clemens began his career by writing for newspapers and magazines.
11. Suzy Clemens spinal meningitis and died from the disease in 1896.
12. The author worked with an editor to revise her before it was printed.
13. Because of his cheerful , people enjoy being with him.
14. Lift the lid carefully so steam does not your hand.
15. I held my nose so I could not smell the odor of burning sulfur.
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Definition Matching:
Mark Twain
INSTRUCTIONS:
For each vocabulary word in the left column, locate its definition in the right column.
Type the number of the correct definition in the blank before the word.
exploit
1. something remembered
disposition
2. person employed to send news from a particular place
correspondent
3. very funny, especially in a loud way
pretension
4. the doing of something to impress or for show; a showy display
lavish
5. not doing enough; in a too small amount
recollection
6. person who agrees to work for a certain amount of time in order to learn a trade
apprentice
7. following; later
uproarious
8. to use unfairly or selfishly
subsequent
9. much more than needed; extravagant
manuscript
10. about literature; having to do with books and articles
loathsome
11. to get
scald
12. a written or typewritten document that has not been printed yet
contract
13. usual way of acting or being
insufficiently
14. to burn with steam or hot liquid
literary
15. very unpleasant; disgusting
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