Wordly Wise 3000 Level 8, Lesson 10

Match the following

• to serve as a memorial to

• advocate

• a form of language spoken in a region

• abject

• to defend

• dialect

• most miserable

• commemorate

• an act of great cruelty

• atrocity

Match the following

• A group that enjoys superior status

• advocate

• to make greater

• enhance

• Having terrible consequences

• atrocious

• Very brutal, wicked, or cold

• dire

• One who argues for or defends a person

• elite

Match the following

• to lose hope, strength, or vitality

• elite

• considered superior to others

• atrocious

• appallingly bad; outrageous

• languish

• to soften or tone down the sound

• mute

• clearly offensive or bad

• flagrant

Match the following

• a retaliation for an injury

• mute

• not able to speak

• reprisal

• to bring about or inflict

• raze

• to level to the ground

• wreak

• a state of confusion or agitation

• turmoil

The dog lived in ​ (a)   conditions until the neighbor children began to care for her.

• abject
• advocate
• enhance
• turmoil

A Spanish-speaking person from Madrid might not completely understand a ​ (a)   spoken in Cuba.

• dialect
• advocate
• elite
• mute

We ​ (a)   on the porch as the rain soaked the picnic blanket and all the food we had laid out.

• languished
• commemorated
• enhanced
• razed

The tornado ​ (a)   destruction along the path it followed through the center of town.

• wreaked
• abjected
• enhanced
• languished

Which building has been razed?

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Label the area in which the Cajun dialect of English is spoken.