"In a multitude of words there will certainly be error."
Chinese proverb
Words to Learn This Week
plea
weary
collide
confirm
verify
anticipate
dilemma
detour
merit
transmit
relieve
baffle
Read the following story to see how the new words are used in it.
Safety in the Air
The most persistent plea of weary pilots has always been for a machine that would warn them that they were about to collide with an oncoming airplane. Studies of landing patterns confirm that the number of collisions is increasing each year, and pilots verify hundreds of reports of near misses. Recently a system that would electronically anticipate oncoming airplanes was devised, and the pilot's dilemma to dive or to climb, to detour to left or right, may be solved. The system has merit, though, only if every plane is equipped to transmit and receive a signal to and from an oncoming plane. But most aviation experts feel that only a system that watches every airplane in the sky will relieve a problem that tends to baffle every one who attempts to find a solution.
Place one of the new words in each of the blanks below.
01. The first time a message was _________ over a telegraph was in 1840.
02. Can you ________ that this is your handwriting?
03. I took a ______ to avoid traffic.
04. We were all very ________ after the long trip.
05. There is ______ jn being a good listener.
06. The judge listened to the burglar's ________ of not guilty.
07. The runner and catcher were about to _________ at home plate.
08. Tyrone was _______ that he didn't have any more work to do.
09. When you run a company you have at least one new __________ every day to solve.
10. Did you _______ our reservations at the hotel?
11. We were _______ as to who murdered the wretched old man.
12. After having been married to Arthur for thirty years, Selma could ___________ everything he was going to say.
