Jargon Journal: Martin's Big Words

Match the following

• admire

• to get someone to do something

• threaten

• to show you don't like something

• protest

• to look up to someone

• convince

• to say you will do something bad to someone

We cannot ​ (a)   my brother to eat vegetables.

• convince
• admire
• threaten
• protest

I ​ (a)   my sister for reading many books.

• admire
• convince
• threaten
• protest

Mom ​ (a)   to ground him if he didn't clean his room.

• threatened
• admired
• convinced
• protested

The workers came to ​ (a)   the company's unfair rules.

• protest
• convince
• admire
• threaten

If you get someone to do something, you ________ them.

• convince

• protest

• admire

• threaten

To _______ is to show you don't like something.

• convince

• protest

• admire

• threaten

If you look up to someone, you ______ them.

• convince

• protest

• admire

• threaten

To ________ is to say you will do something bad to someone.

• convince

• protest

• admire

• threaten

I ​ (a)   how hard she works to help her family.

• admire
• threaten
• protest
• convince