Match the definitions to the words.

Write the vocabulary word that best suits the context of each sentence below. (This time I have written words in the forms required for the blanks.)

“As Americans showed themselves ever more willing to relocate for employment reasons after the Second World War, another social trend became apparent: the decline of community and family solidity in the United States.” [Daniel W. E. Holt, “Less                               1                                  May Enhance Family Ties,” New York Times, 4 January 1996]

“With a                          2                                born of four years on the filleting line of the Delta Pride Catfish Company plant in Indianola, Miss., Elizabeth Smith fluidly cut into a two-pound farm-bred fish.” [Ronald Smothers, “Fishtale: Mississippi to Moscow,” New York Times, 21 May 1988]

“Homesickness has been around longer than summer camp itself, and the traditional tools for it –

                           3                                  letters and packages from home – can now be supplemented by e-mail, faxes, even instant messaging.” [Katie Hafner, “To: Mom and Dad – Re: Homesickness,” New York Times, 31 July 2003]

“The seven City Councilmen of Yonkers, Edward J. Fagan Jr. notes with some satisfaction, have been called -both affectionately and                              4                                  -Big Bird and the six Smurfs. At 6 foot 3, he is Big Bird.” [Lisa W. Foderaro, “Defiant 4: The Councilmen Who Are Blocking the Yonkers Housing Plan,” New York Times, 31 August 1988]

“Michael Pollan has much to say about lawns, but he fails to mention [philosopher] Thorstein Veblen, whose social and economic theories included even lawns . . . . What governs our passion for a                          5                                              maintained lawn, according to Veblen, is not the need for beautification, social conformity nor civic responsibility.” [“Why Mow?” New York Times, 25 June 1989]

“There’s a new                   6                                  in the voice: a loud, raw, anxious quality that suggests that the speaker would very much like you to like her, but knows that isn’t going to happen.” [Ben Brantley, “Theatre Review: New Cheerleader for the World’s End,” New York Times, 20 October 1998]

“The United States trade representative, Charlene Barshefsky, has run afoul of the nation’s trade law. Traveling with President Clinton to China, Ms. Barshefsky bought several Beanie Babies – her staff will not say how many – to take home. . . . But the United States Customs Service, . . . , has placed a limit of one Beanie Baby per family for people re-entering the United States. Upon her return to work this week, Ms. Barshefsky asked her legal staff to determine whether she had violated any trade laws or regulations. When told of the one-Beanie-per-family rule, she voluntarily turned over her purchases to Customs Service officials, said an aide who spoke on condition of anonymity.” [“Official                          7                              by Beanie Babies,” New York Times, 11 July 1998]

“The new restaurant is huge and slightly tacky, so filled with                   8                               old things that it looks more like a steakhouse designed by Disney than one in the beating heart of Manhattan.” [Ruth Reichl, “Diner’s Journal,” New York Times, 16 January 1998]

“There are some vivid performances, which are sometimes hard to distinguish from                 9                      displays of overacting. The whole movie, which opens today in the New York metropolitan area, Detroit and Chicago, is so overcharged with incident and conflict that the story short-circuits almost as soon as it begins.” [A. O. Scott, “Film Review: Tough Women in the Pen Decide to Get Tougher,” New York Times, 10 October 2003]

 “Malaysia declared a state of emergency in two coastal cities today as smoke drifting across the Straits of Malacca from forest fires in Indonesia blanketed parts of the peninsula in                 10                     haze, forcing the country’s biggest seaport to shut down.” [Wayne Arnold, “Malaysia, Blanketed in                            10                                 Haze, Declares Emergency,” New York Times, 11 August 2005]