Unit 9 Vocabulary

unAdulation

• A greedy desire
• Praise/flattery that is excessive
• Cloudlike
• Tending to delay

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Abate

• Become less
• Review a series of facts
• Inactive
• Deserving blame

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Anathema

• Vanishing
• Shrewd
• Curse; intense dislike
• Untidy; Dirty

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Astute

• Done for show
• Deserving blame
• To nullify; to deduct
• Shrewd, crafty

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Avarice

• A greedy desire
• Cloudy in color
• Standing out from a mass
• Done for show

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Culpable

• Deserving blame
• Praise/flattery that is excessive
• Conspicuous 
• Cloudlike

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Dilatory

• To speak with more than one interpretation
• Tending to delay/procrastinate
• Light and airy
• To sum up

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Egregious

• Ambiguous
• Unable to make up one's mind
• Careless, dirty
• Conspicuous; standing out

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Equivocate

• Soon passing away
• Inactive, sluggish
• Allows for more than one interpretation
• Bring back to consciousness

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Evanescent

• Vanishing, soon passing away
• To make less in amount
• Not prompt
• To revive

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C