Homework for April 5-April 9

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a fantastic Spring Break! Homework for this week is vocabulary and puzzle of the week. Please remember to not only complete the vocabulary assignment, but also study for your test on Friday. This week's test will on spelling, meaning, and using words correctly in sentences. Homework requires students to alphabetize the word list first, then find synonyms for all odd numbered words, and antonyms for all even numbered words. Additionally, students need to identify the part of speech for all words. Vocabulary list: 1. tamper 2. impatience 3. annual 4. combat 5.occasional 6. dignity 7. magical 8. severe 9. illegal 10.counterfeit 11. nuisance 12. reliable 13. vacate 14. deceive 15. yearn 16. anniversary 17. opponent 18. humid 19. vicinity 20. rampage 21. estimate 22.amateur Puzzle of the Week: Please remember to not only complete the math, but also answer the guideline questions for the puzzle of the week. This week's puzzle requires you to work backward to find the answer to the following mystery. Please include each step, and not just the final answer. Late one night a burglar somehow got into one of the vaults in Fort Knox and started out with a big sack of gold coins. No one really knows how much he stole. At any rate, on his way out, he was stopped by one of the guards, who caught him "holding the bag" so to speak. Fortunately for him, the burglar was able to talk his way out of trouble by offering the guard half of the money he had taken with a bonus of $2,000 thrown in. Just as he was walking away, praising his good luck at having gotten free, he was stopped by a second guard. It took the same bribe, half of all the money he had left, with $2,000 thrown in, to get by the second guard. Just as he was about to leave, you guessed it, he was stopped by yet a third guard who let him go only after receiving half of all the burglar had left, with $2,000 thrown in. By the time the burglar left the front gate of Fort Knox, he had mixed emotions. After all, he did leave with $9,000 more than he had when he arrived and he escaped a free man. (he had nothing when he arrived) But as he thought of all the money he had left behind with the guards, he wept. Oh, by the way, you now know enough to calculate how much he had taken in the first place.