Learn Chapter 19 Vocab.

After many years of being a student, I found it hard to adapt to the schedule of a full-time job.

Gina adapted well to California. She had no trouble adjusting to living so far from her family and friends.

Adapt means:

• to return

• to change to fit new conditions

• to travel

• to legally take another's child and bring it up as one's own

Aaron was dismayed when he realized that he wouldn't have enough money to buy a special birthday present for his girlfriend.

The doctor knew it would dismay Karl to learn that his injured leg would never regain its previous strength.

Dismay means:

• to discourage

• to relieve

• to delay

• to return

The political rebel decided to end his five-year exile and return to his native land to oppose the government.

Peter fled his native country thirty years ago and has lived in exile ever since.

Exile means:

• a long vacation

• a bad attitude

• a separation from one's homeland

• a way out

As a gesture of sympathy, the neighborhood association sent flowers to Milly when her cat died.

The other workers' gestures of friendship made Vic feel at home on the first day of his new job.

A wave is a common gesture for hello.

Gesture means:

• a signal

• a request

• a report

• a long vacation.

The heavy blanket of clouds finally began to recede, allowing the sun to warm the crowd at the football game.

Walter had to wait until the flood waters receded before he could get to his house to assess the damage.

Recede means:

• to grow

• to return

• to move back or away

• to travel

I've done many favors for Anne, but she never reciprocates by doing a favor for me in return.

After her neighbors kept her awake all night with a loud party, Tracie reciprocated the next morning by mowing her lawn at 6:00 am.

Reciprocate means:

• to celebrate

• to pay back; to do in return

• to disappoint

• to go back

The lawyer was able to refute the defendant's claim that she was home the night of the murder. He had found a witness who saw her in a mall store that night.

Some science-fiction fans were disappointed when photos of Mars refuted the idea that intelligent life exists there.

Refute means:

• to support

• to repeat

• to prove to be false

• to return

Plastic storage containers often retain the odors of foods. I have one that still smells like spaghetti sauce after ten washings.

"I can usually retain my sense of humor," Janice said. "But I lose it totally when I'm laid off and break up with my boyfriend the same week."

Retain means:

• to hold onto

• to adjust to

• to lose

• to go back

After his release from jail, Sam reverted to her old habit of stealing and ended up in jail again.

Helene gave up smoking while she was pregnant, but she reverted back to a pack a day after her daughter was born.

Revert means:

• to grow

• to refer

• to say no

• to go back to

Rituals- set practices that are repeated regularly- are important in most religious traditions.

Each time Mary Ann has to fly in a plane, she writes a check to a charity, brings it with her on the plane, and mails it at her destination. She believes this ritual guarantees a safe flight.

Ritual means:

• a ceremony

• a prayer

• a lesson

• a signal