Lights! Action! CHARACTER!
Upper Grade Vocabulary Page 4
If you listen carefully during the opera, you will hear the words printed in the
left hand column. Do you know what they mean? 
 
Match the words with their meanings by writing the correct letter on the line. For writing practice, you may write the meaning along with its letter.

 

WORDS

MEANINGS

1. maintain      ______________________________________________________

2. imagine       ______________________________________________________

3. attitude        ______________________________________________________

4. desert          ______________________________________________________

5. abuse           _____________________________________________________

6. extend          _____________________________________________________

7. water under the bridge   _____________________________________________

8. courteous      _____________________________________________________

9. concise         _____________________________________________________

10. utmost         _____________________________________________________

11. heighten      _____________________________________________________

12. self-discipline   ___________________________________________________

13. cope           _____________________________________________________

14. despair       _____________________________________________________

15. mature        _____________________________________________________

16. endure        _____________________________________________________

17. pursue        _____________________________________________________

18. specific      _____________________________________________________

19. achieve      _____________________________________________________

20. conceived  _____________________________________________________

21. applause    _____________________________________________________

22. essential    _____________________________________________________

23. rouse         _____________________________________________________

24. current events  __________________________________________________

25. develop     _____________________________________________________

26. opportunity  ____________________________________________________

 

A. leave

B. follow

C. reach out

D. hopelessness

E. deal with

F. very most

G. way of looking at
things

H. last

I. controlling oneself

J. exact

K. thought up

L. something that is over

M. think about

N. needed

O. hurt

P. wake up

Q. get

R. short

S. grow

T. keep

U. news

V. polite

W. grow up

X. increase

Y. chance

Z. clapping hands to show approval

 

 
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