Importance of Being Earnest Vocab

a thing at which someone excels

• heretical
• provincial
• forte
• insuperable

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

showing conviction or sincerity

• salver

• apprised

• effrontery

• earnest

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury

• invalid
• eccentric
• misanthrope
• profligate

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

in an honest and straightforward way

• equanimity
• candidly
• indiscretion
• ostentatiously

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

synonym for reckless or immoral

• profligate

• misanthrope

• solicitors

• impetuous

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

to waver between different opinions or actions

• equanimity
• indiscretion
• vacillate
• consternation

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society

• metaphysical
• neologistic
• heretical
• misanthrope

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress

• abstraction
• calamity
• grotesque
• effrontery

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman

• effeminate
• misanthrope
• entrancing
• indecorous

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

synonym for the word "audacity"

• consternation

• indignant

• insuperable

• effrontery

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4