Day 6: Vocabulary Strategies

Introductory Activity #1: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

Today, I am an inquistitor. An hyperbole would not be ficitonal and would not overstate the solemness that I feel right now. My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit her and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution.

The main rhetorical effect of the series of three phrases in lines 5-6 (the diminution, the subversion, the destruction) is to

A) convey with increasing intensity the seriousness of the threat Jordan sees to the Constitution.

B) clarify that Jordan believes the Constitution was first weakened, then sabotaged, then broken.

C) indicate that Jordan thinks the Constitution is prone to failure in three distinct ways.

D) propose a three-part agenda for rescuing the Constitution from the current crisis.

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Introductory Activity #2: : Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

[... ] The coming decades will likely see more intense clustering of jobs, innovation, and productivity in a smaller number of bigger cities and cityregions. Some regions could end up bloated beyond the capacity of their infrastructure, while others struggle, their promise sLymied by inadequate human or other resources.

Adapted from Richard Florida, The Great Reset. ©2010 by Richard Florida.

As used in line 52, "intense" most nearly means

A) emotional.

B) concentrated.

C) brilliant.

D) determined.

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