American Football

Football is one of the most popular sports in the United States. It is a game where players bolt down the field hoping to score points for their team. As this is happening the other team is attempting to hold up this process in attempts to gain points for there own team. This can cause violent collisions which can cause players' bodies to buckle. A game of football is a timed event with 4 quarters each lasting for 15 minutes. At the end of the 60 minutes of play the game is finished. But over the course of those 60 min both teams coaches overlook their teams to make sure that there are no oversights that may cause their team to lose that game.

American football is much like American language, since they both have contradictions. One example of these contradictions in the game of football is that it not really played with your feet, but more with your hands. This is like the English language because there are many words that also have contradictions in there different meanings. These words are called Contronyms, or words with contradictory meanings. Some of these terms are:

Bolt: To secure, or to flee

Buckle: To connect, or to break or collapse

Finished: Completed, or destroyed

Give out: To provide, or to stop because of a lack of supply

Hold up: To support, or to impede

Overlook: To supervise, or to neglect

Oversight: Monitoring, or failing to oversee

Vocabulary Exercise
Please circle the correct definition as used in the reading for each of the 6 vocabulary terms.

Bolt             To secure             OR              To Flee

Buckle          To connect           OR               To break or collapse

Finished       Completed           OR               destroyed

Give out        To Provide           OR              To stop because of a lack of
                                                                supply

Hold up         To Support           OR              To inpede

Overlook       To supervise        OR              To neglect

Oversight      Monitoring           OR              Failing to oversee

Grammer Point
A colon is used at the end of a clause that introduces a list, especially when the following or as follows is used.
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For all of your new vocabulary please write one sentence showing each of the words meanings.