ACT Vocabulary: Ideas and Community

The neighborhood council passed an ordinance that stops loud music within one street of the library after nine at night.

The civics syllabus told students to spend week four reading town maps in the library.

Every household on the street completed the census so the clinic would know how many children lived nearby.

The archive of old clinic reports fills twenty labeled boxes in the library basement.

The librarian showed the class the charter, the signed document that created the public library and listed its powers.

The clerk read the proceedings aloud so members could correct what had been written about the last neighborhood meeting.

She filled one oval on her ballot and folded it before dropping it in the box at the school gym.

Parents and clinic nurses packed the forum in the school cafeteria to discuss the new bus routes.

The neighborhood council named a commission of five residents to study the clinic's crowded exam rooms.

The election result gave the neighborhood council a mandate to keep the library open on Sundays.

A provision in the school lease lets the clinic use the side door on weekdays.

A rider on the proposal the council was about to vote into law set aside money for the clinic refrigerator.

In the library's founding document, clause 4 gives the street address of the first building.

In the neighborhood rules, provision 3 states that the clinic will close on town holidays.

The student council introduced a bill to keep the library open on Saturday mornings.

After the vote, the clerk posted the act that sets quiet hours around the neighborhood clinic.

The council debated a proposal that would put a crosswalk between the school and the clinic.

A parent made a motion that the neighborhood council send a letter asking for a stop sign by the school.

The neighborhood council adopted a resolution thanking the librarians for keeping the reading room open all summer.

The clinic kitchen follows the town code that tells public kitchens how to store food.

It is a school custom for new students to tour the old records room during their first week.

Science teachers from several towns met at a conference in the high school gym to compare lab courses.

Clinic protocol requires each patient to sign in at the desk before seeing a nurse.

The agenda for the neighborhood meeting lists the population count, the clinic hours, and the library roof.

The council docket placed the library budget ahead of the request about the park lights.

The council calendar set the discussion of the park lights for Thursday evening at the library.

A schedule attached to the clinic lease lists the furniture that belongs to the school.

New voters wrote their names on the roster at the table in the school gym.

The teacher called the roll and checked off each student before the class walked to the library basement.

Her transcript listed every course she had passed at the community college, from civics to biology.

The footnote under the population figure named the town count kept in the library.

The overview at the front of the clinic study summed up the findings in one paragraph.

The library reference room keeps a compendium of the town's local laws, arranged by subject.

The appendix at the back of the civics book prints the maps students need for the visit to the old records room.

She used the concordance at the back of the book about the town's past to locate each mention of the clinic.

In the set about the town's past, tome 3 is a separate book on the library cart.

For her study of childhood asthma, she read a medical journal the library keeps with its scholarly magazines.

The May edition of the school magazine, the one printed that month, sat on the library rack.

Her commentary in the school magazine explained why the neighborhood council delayed the library vote.

The teacher asked the class to read the passage in the founding document that describes the first public library.

The senior-year corpus includes the book about the town's past and three novels every student is expected to know.

The primer on the children's shelf uses short sentences to introduce town government.

The clinic manual at the front desk tells volunteers how to store a new patient's visit notes.

A sidenote in the margin of the old founding document explains the hard word for a public garden in plain language.

The lexicon on the reference shelf defines the words the neighborhood council uses in its rules.

Sunday hours lifted lending at the neighborhood library, as more books went out on loan.

The library's copy of the first town count is the single printed book on the locked shelf.

The clerk emailed the draft of the meeting notes so members could suggest corrections before Thursday.

Her outline of the council debate fit on one sheet, with only the main points under each heading.

She bound her thesis on neighborhood health and turned that long research study in to the college library.

Her essay on the neighborhood clinic, twenty sheets of research, won the library prize.

The catalog listing for the yearbook gives the call number students need to request it in the library.

The nurse locked the patient's dossier, a folder of visit notes, in the clinic closet.

The clerk placed the log of the council vote, a signed sheet of tally marks, in the library's locked drawer.

The nurse updated the chart with the child's weight and the date of the clinic visit.

Before the shot, the nurse asked for the patient's history, including past illnesses and medicines.

The clinic treated an instance of strep throat and sent the student back to class the next day.

The nurse started her circuit of the clinic rooms at eight, checking each patient in turn.

Clinic intake for new patients, the sign-in and first questions, happens at the front desk.

Her shift at the clinic runs from noon until the library across the street closes.

The nurse's station, the desk at the center of the clinic, holds the visit folders and the phone.

She represents the third ward, the streets between the library and the clinic, on the neighborhood council.

Voters from her precinct marked their choices in the school gym at the end of the street.

The old market quarter around the library is the part of town where the weekend food stalls stand.

Every house on the block received a population form and a note about the clinic.

The empty lot beside the school, a bare piece of ground, became a garden for the clinic nutrition class.

The garden plot behind the library grows tomatoes for the neighborhood food pantry.

The farmers' market fills the plaza, the open public space in front of the library, every Saturday.

The foundation paid for new chairs in the children's room of the library.

Small-claims court meets once a month in the school auditorium so neighbors can settle small disputes.

The council chamber, the room where members debate and vote, is down the hall from the library.

The student cabinet, the small group of officers who advise the council president, met in the library.

The school board voted to share the nurse's room with the neighborhood clinic two days a week.

The chair of the neighborhood council called on the librarian to speak about Sunday hours.

Our street won a seat in the group that runs the library, so a neighbor can vote on hours and fines.

She ran for the office of council secretary and promised to post the meeting notes in the library.

Her tenure on the neighborhood council lasts two years and began after the library election.

The evening session of the neighborhood council ran long because of the request about the clinic.

The council took a recess after the library debate and came back for the vote.

The council held a hearing at the library so residents could speak about the clinic crosswalk.

The shop owner filed a grievance over the parking fine with the council clerk at the library.

The recall of the council member required a special election at the school gym.

Neighbors gathered signatures for an initiative that would fund new lights at the library.

Neighbors signed a petition asking the council for a stop sign beside the school.

Her proxy, the neighbor named in a signed note, raised a hand to cast her vote at the council meeting.

A constituent who lives on our street called the council about the dark road by the clinic.

The neighborhood group published its slate, the full list of candidates it supports for the group that runs the library.

The library party printed a ticket of three candidates for the neighborhood council.

The candidates published a platform that promised longer library hours and a Saturday clinic.

One plank in the candidates' public program called for homework help four nights a week.

Students took a poll on whether the library should stay open through the dinner hour.

Voters chose a nominee for the open council place in the spring primary held at the school gym.

A lobby of parents asked the neighborhood council to fund the clinic's evening hours.

Before the library vote, the whip called each council member to confirm how that member would vote.

Members elected a speaker to run the student assembly and keep the library debate in order.

The page carried the printed proposal from the clerk's desk to the person leading the student assembly.

Each school sent one representative to speak for its students at the town youth council.

The library fellowship paid her a stipend to sort photographs in the town photo room for a year.

The scholarship covered her school fees so she could take the night course on town government at the library.

Students pay tuition for the evening writing course at the library desk before the first class.

She needs one more credit in biology before the college will grant the diploma.

She earned a credential in biology after finishing the program at the community college.

His major is biology, which is why he spends most evenings with the science books in the library.

As a minor, he needed a parent to sign the clinic form before the school physical.

Every member of the faculty, from the newest teacher to the principal, voted to keep the library open on Sundays during exam week.

The seminar on town records is listed in the course catalog, meets around one table in the library, and expects every student to speak.

Doctors and nurses held a symposium at the clinic to compare findings from the school asthma study.