FCP Vocabulary 8A

to aggravate, intensify, worsen

• saturate
• portend
• slough
• exacerbate

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

done slyly or stealthily, sneaky, secret, shifty

• ephemeral
• convivial
• furtive
• indigent

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

one of the series of grades in an organization or field of activity

• echelon
• illusory
• pertinacious
• bestial

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path

• badinage
• paucity
• juggernaut
• litany

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

tastelessly showy or overdecorated in a vulgar or offensive way

• illusory
• garish
• bestial
• pertinacious

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

to cast overboard, get rid of as unnecessary or burdensome

• embellish
• allay
• demur
• jettison

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

to reconcile, make consistent

• raze
• conciliate
• exacerbate
• saturate

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

lacking in or not based on reality

• illusory
• picayune
• ephemeral
• inordinate

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

beyond argument

• irrefutable
• saturnine
• arrant
• fatuous

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

thoroughgoing, out-and-out

• irrefutable
• arrant
• macabre
• saturnine

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D