[balmy / citadel / clad / fallacy / gingerly / grope / intervene / mercenary / plunder / revenue / rue / staple / turbulent / tycoon / vilify]

Name: _________________________________ Date: ______________________ Pd: ______

Word Study: Were Coming Up- Pick the Winner
Directions: Circle the word that best fits into the sentence. Then write a sentence below that uses the word you
didnt pick in a meaningful way.
1. The (tycoon OR mercenary) owned four of the top five toy manufacturing companies in the U.S.
2. _______________________________________________________________________________________
3. Cheerios is a (citadel OR staple) of every household that has small children.
4. _______________________________________________________________________________________
5. All of the (revenue OR fallacy) from the middle school dance went to pay for the end-of-the year field trip.
6. _______________________________________________________________________________________
7. Surfers make sure the ocean is not too (turbulent OR balmy) before they paddle out to the breaking sets.
8. _______________________________________________________________________________________
9. To show their team spirit, the crowd all came to the game (clad OR rue) in blue hats, shirts and pants.
10. ______________________________________________________________________________________

Compiled and Created by Wenda Thompson 2015