READING 1 OF 23 focus words
Context study 1
Read for meaning first. Select a highlighted word if you want a closer look.
A clear explanation helped assuage the parents' fears. The novelist described the crowd's fear as atavistic. Their audacious plan was to move the entire theater in one night.
The apology did little to assuage her resentment. The sculpture gave modern machinery an atavistic, almost prehistoric appearance. The painter made an audacious departure from the academy's rules.
Before you move on
Look away from the passage. Can you explain each focus word in your own words?
Original fictional passages for vocabulary practice.