Oct 15th

1. Peripheral

2. Integral

3. Novelty

4. Gadfly

5. Periphery

6. Fetter

7. Extol

8. Glee

9. Succinct

10. Iconoclast

11. Garrulous

12. Cryptic

13. Redolent

14. Slothful

15. Zephyr

16. Seasoned

17. Digression

18. Taciturn

19. Embezzlement

20. Exotic

21. Malicious

22. Delay

23. Beleaguered

24. Assertive


Analogies:

1. Accidental: Incidental

2. Beleaguered: Assertive

3. School: Education


Issue Topic:

1. The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were mad; possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten.


Argument Topic:

1. The following appeared in an editorial in the Mason City newspaper.
"At present, Mason City residents seldom use the nearby Mason River for any kind of recreational activity, even though surveys of the region's residents consistently rank water sports (swimming, fishing, and boating) as a favorite form of recreation. Since there have been complaints about the quality of the water in the river, residents must be avoiding the river because they think that it is not clean enough. But that situation is about to change: the agency responsible for rivers in our region has announced plans to clean up Mason River. Therefore, recreational use of the river is likely to increase, so the Mason City council will need to increase its budget for improvements to the publicly owned lands along the Mason River."