Wordly Wise 3000® Level 7, Lesson 8

Match the following

• Sharp, irritating taste or smell

• Acrid

• To manage problems successfully

• Congested

• With great speed or force; reckless

• Headlong

• A person killed in a war or accident

• Casualty

• Overcrowded

• Cope

Match the following

• impediment

• impede

• congested

• An obstacle

• To get in the way of; to interfere

• Recklessly; without time for careful thought

• headlong

• To move with great force & speed

• hurtle

• Filled with fluid

Match the following

• The condition of being overcrowded

• inevitable

• The act of beginning

• irate

• Very angry; furious

• initiation

• Bound to happen, unavoidable

• initiate

• To put into effect; to bring into use

• congestion

Match the following

• initiation

• The state of being negligent

• initiate

• To take in as a member

• negligent

• Failing to take proper care of

• lax

• Not tight; loose

• negligence

• The ceremony or process that makes one a member

Match the following

• Not strictly enforced

• smolder

• A large number of people gathered

• lax

• Strict; severe

• stringent

• To burn slowly without flames

• throng

Which of the following would most likely hold a throng?

• Stadium or auditorium
• Closet

• Coffee shop
• Library

How would one describe the care this animal has been receiving?

• Negligent

• Inevitable

• Impede

• Congested

Which of the following mean "congested?"

• Overcrowded; too full

• Filled with fluid

• To get in the way of; to interfere

• To manage problems successfully

Which of the following would smell acrid?

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Extra police were on duty to ​ (a)   with the large crowds expected for the parade.

• cope
• throng
• impede
• initiate