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  • 1 French is a more beautiful language than German.
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  • 2 Video chatting is the best way to stay in touch with family and friends.
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  • 3 Learning a new language is a lot of fun.
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  • 4 The telephone was patented by Alexander Graham Bell on March 7, 1876.
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  • 5 Young babies can't use words, so they communicate by crying.
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  • 6 Cell phones can be harmful to your health.
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  • 7 Newspapers that use more difficult vocabulary are less widely read than newspapers with easier vocabulary.
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  • 8 On average, most people use about 16,000 words per day.
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Vocabulary
melancholy - adj. gloomy, sad, depressed
E.g.: Anyone but he would have felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place, for the common people had a bad opinion of it.
avarice - n. insatiable greed for riches or wealth
E.g.: All her avarice was awakened at the mention of hidden gold, and she urged her husband to comply with the black man's terms, and secure what would make them wealthy for life.
usurer - n. one who lends money, at an unusually or unlawfully high rate of interest; a loan shark
E.g.: The devil proposed that Tom turn usurer, the devil being extremely anxious for the increase of usurers.
propitious - adj. helpful or advantageous; favorable
E.g.: At this propitious time of public distress did Tom Walker set up as usurer in Boston.
ostentation - n. A display meant to impress others; boastful showiness.
E.g.: Tom built himself a vast house, out of ostentation, but left he greater part of it unfinished and unfurnished, out of parsimony.
 
Complete the following sentence:
The flu epidemic seemed a _____ time to launch the new super-vitamin campaign.
A. melancholy
B. propitious
C. avarice
D. usurer
Vocabulary
melancholy - adj. gloomy, sad, depressed
E.g. Anyone but he would have felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place, for the common people had a bad opinion of it.
avarice - n. insatiable greed for riches or wealth
E. g: All her avarice was awakened at the mention of hidden gold, and she urged her husband to comply with the black man's terms, and secure what would make them wealthy for life.
usurer - n. one who lends money, at an unusually or unlawfully high rate of interest; a loan shark
E.g.: The devil proposed that Tom tum usurer, the devil being extremely anxious for the increase of usurers.
propitious - adj. helpful or advantageous; favorable
E.g.: At this propitious time of public distress did Tom Walker set up as usurer in Boston.
ostentation - n. A display meant to impress others; boastful showiness
E.g.: Tom built himself a vast house, out of ostentation, but left the greater part of it unfinished and unfurnished, out of parsimony
 
Complete the following sentence:
It was a day for the kids as they watched the rain drizzle relentlessly on the beach.
A. propitious
B. melancholy
C. avarice
D. usurer

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