Vocabulary Workshop Unit 11

Shortness, terseness, pithiness

• brevity
• demure
• divulge
• quaver

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to conduct or bear oneself, behave

• divulge 
• comport
• forestall
• recoil

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

expressing much in a few words

• enlightened
• concise
• demure
• staccato

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

sober or serious in manner, modest

• forestall
• relentless
• demure
• squander

a lessening in value; a belittling

• depreciation
• brevity
• recoil
• reek

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to lower in quality or value; to wear away

• quaver
• deteriorate
• garble
• comport

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

to tell, reveal; to make public

• garble
• recoil
• deteriorate
• divulge

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

free from ignorance and false ideas; possessing sound understanding

• enlightened
• concise
• demure
• statute

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to prevent by acting first

• recoil
• comport
• forestall
• squander

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

to distort in such a way as to make unintelligible

• reek
• garble
• depreciation
• rivulet

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4