Exercise i. complete the sentence in a way that shows you understand the meaning of the italicized vocabulary word.
1. if frank, whom lisa does not trust, counsels lisa to take a job, lisa will probably…

2. connie, who was usually on the cautious side, surprised us by…

3. one admonition that mothers often issue to their children is…

4. when irene had an unpleasant premonition about the trip, she decided to…

5. in order to reconcile my sisters, who had been fighting for months, i…

6. as a precaution, the firemen always…

7. as a conciliatory act towards his political opponent, governor hodges…

8. when small children hear a cautionary tale, they usually…

9. the only way to dissuade a very stubborn person from doing something is to…

10. most of the people at the party were of the persuasion that likes classical music, but some…

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.