Vocabulary Unit 7

Students will be suspended for one week if they bring any ________ materials to school. 

• inflammatory
• pathetic
• illicit
• dissect

n. a person who has committed a crime or is guilty of some misconduct; an offender. 

• persevere
• fatality
• expend
• culprit

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Syn: plug away, pursue
Ant: give up, throw in the towel 

• persevere
• memorandum
• dawdle
• expend

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

At the family reunion, we got to hear 94-year-old Tia Luzia __________  about life in old Havana. 

• relish
• reminisce
•  write
• dawdle

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

v. to make twisting or turning movements in a way that suggest pain or struggle

• quash
• testimonial
• relish
• writhe

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Syn: utilize, consume, disburse
Ant: save, hoard

• memorandum
• gullible
• fatality
• expend

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

I find it's easier to ________ my entire body in a swimming pool than try to get used to the water more slowly. 

• immerse
• gullible
• authorize
• dawdle

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

V. to lie, tell an untruth; to mislead on purpose

• relish
• prevaricate
• testimonial
• writhe

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

syn: provoking, incendiary, provocative
ant: soothing, lulling, quieting

• reminisce
• scour
• testimonial
• inflammatory

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

I can't wait to _________ a frog in biology class next week. 

• dissect
• dawdle
• scour
• illicit

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C