English Skills 3850                                                               Topic: Vocabulary Development - Context Clues              Date: November 3, 2020.

Instruction: Choose the most appropriate word from the list below to complete each sentence. You can use a word ONLY ONCE.

Insolent                progress             account                  physical            determined

Institution            function              pronounce             cynic                  author              sincerely              council                citizen                simultaneously     haggard

I attended a prestigious for school.

The student was to finish school.

How do you your name?

Can you give an of what happened to Mary this morning?

The will take a vote at the meeting to be held this evening.

fitness is very important to your health.

The spoiled boy was behaving like an little child.

He is a because he didn’t believe the team could ever win.

We ran into each other on the field.

She became a after taking an oath.

I want to graduate this year from school with my friends and make my parents proud.

Did you attend the after school to raise funds for needy students to receive internet access to do online school?

I do not very well in the morning.

The girl looked after a long day at school.

Mrs. Brooks is the of a best seller novel.

Instruction:  Complete the paragraph below using an appropriate word from the list below. Use the clue words in each sentence to help you in your selection of each word. Give the paragraph a title to capture the main idea of what it is about.

NOTEWELL: You may use a word MORE THAN ONCE.

WORDS:    Computations, familiar, logical, century, programmable, machine, automatically

TITLE: 

A computer is a machine designed to carry out a sequence of arithmetic or operations. The first use of the word “computer” was recorded in 1613, referring to a person who carried out calculations or and the word continued with the same meaning until the middle if the 20th . From the end of the 19th the word began to take on a more meaning, a that carries out .