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Wordsearch 41
Using the clues listed below, fill in each blank in the following story with one of the new words you learned this week.
Age Discrimination
One of the most 
__________ forms of discrimination is that based upon age. We have become aware through publicity and education that bias and discrimination based upon race, color, creed, and sex are not to be accepted. Through laws passed by the Congress of the United States and by individual states, we agree that using these criteria
for hiring, promoting, or firing in the workplace is a 
__________ and undemocratic excuse. Many lawsuits have supported this most basic right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" protected by our Constitution.
Why is it, then, that so few question the 
__________ of preventing those viewed as "too old" from getting positions, or, if already on the job, promotions? Advanced age also leads to the firing of such employees and their
replacement with younger applicants. Is there something 
__________ in youth that suggests that older workers cannot do the job as well? Until age discrimination goes the way of all of the other forms of prejudice, we may
continue to 
__________ the reasoning that "younger is better." Clues
2nd Day
4th Day
3rd Day
1st Day
2nd Day
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42nd Week 1st Day
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quandary |
callous |
expedient |
negligible |
blasé |
You Can't Help But Watch
The consumer is in a quandary about making a felicitous* selection among the array* of products. The advertisers must influence the malleable* consumer, and often they do it in the most callous ways. Television offers many tangible* advantages for reaching the consumer. As a result, the consumer is inundated* by commercials. The advertiser knows that a television commercial is the most expedient way to reach large numbers of people. The cost for each commercial film is prodigious,* but because the audience is so large, the cost per viewer is negligible. Each commercial is prepared in the most meticulous* way in order to catch the attention of even the most blasé viewer and hold it until the message is through.
The reintroduced "new word" should have stood out immediately. Did it? It's callous, of course.
Sample Sentences
Insert the new words in these sentences.
1.It was fortuitous* that the accident occurred when there were __________ numbers of children in the buses.
2.He was in a __________ about which selection from his extensive repertoire* it would be feasible* to perform for the children.
3.Because she had committed only a venial* offense, he thought it __________ to abjure* a severe punishment.
4.Who can be __________ about the presence of many indigent* families in close proximity* to affluence?*
5.People have become so __________ about the once thrilling, now mundane* flights into space.
Definitions
Match the new words with their definitions.
6. quandary |
____ a. indifferent, not responsive to excitement |
7. callous |
____ b. hardened, unfeeling |
8. expedient (adj.) |
____ c. doubt, dilemma |
9. negligible |
____ d. advisable, fit |
10. blasé |
____ e. trifling, inconsiderable |
Today's Idiom
to do one's heart goodto make one feel happy or better
It did my heart good to see that inveterate* egotist* eat humble pie.*
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2nd Day
New Words
ennui |
comely |
frenetic |
artifice |
diversity |
Tricks of the Trade
Some television commercials, trying to break through the ennui built up in the viewer by the plethora* of competition, employ humor. Others feature a comely girl as a pretext* for getting the viewer to stay tuned in. At times raucous* music, accompanied by some frenetic activities, is designed to preclude* the viewer's loss of attention. The advertiser will employ every bit of artifice at the film maker's command to make a trenchant* commercial. The diversity of appeals made to the viewer is a concomitant* of the many ways people react to commercials. A great deal of time and money has gone into placing the consumer's psychological make-up under scrutiny.*
Sample Sentences
Insert the new words in these sentences.
1.The omnipotent* dictator employed all of his rhetoric* to vilify* those who would be brash* enough to suggest that a __________
of opinions should be expressed.
2.The fledgling* pianist knew that his mentor* would take umbrage* at his yawning during the lesson, but the feeling of
__________ was overwhelming.
3.He was reticent* about revealing his clandestine* meetings with a __________ young girl counselor at this camp.
4.They furtively* employed every kind of __________ to be able to meet.
5.They were vigilant* in order that their surreptitious* meetings would not be discovered, and it often required __________ changes of plans to preclude* exposure.
Definitions
Match the new words with their definitions.
6. ennui |
____ a. frantic, frenzied |
7. comely |
____ b. boredom |
8. frenetic |
____ c. beautiful, handsome |
9. artifice |
____ d. strategy, trickery |
10. diversity |
____ e. variety, change |
Today's Idiom
worth one's weight in goldextremely valuable, very useful
The coach said the new star center was worth his weight in gold.
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