Building an Enriched Vocabulary Lesson 23

obscene

• offensive to accepted standard of decency; repulsive

• no longer in use

• menacing or theatening

• suitable, appropriate, or timely

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

obsequious

• excessively submissive to another person's wishes or ideas

• immersed in deep, often melancholy thought

• restricted in scope or range; narrow or limited

• apparent or professed

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

obsession

• an irrational preoccupation with an idea or feeling

• to banish or exclude from a group

• general disorder, confusion, noise, and commotion

• a seemingly self-contradictory statement that, on closer examination , proves worthy of belief

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

obsolete

• no longer in use; outmoded

• excessively forward in offering unwanted help

• foreshadowing evil

• suitable, appropriate, or timely

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

officious

• excessively forward in offering unwanted or unnecessary help

• apparent or professed

• located in, or supported by, a parish

• immersed in deep, often melancholy, thought

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

ominous

• foreshadowing evil; menacing or threatening

• offensive to excepted standards of decency

• excessively submissive to another person's wishes or ideas

• no longer in use; outmoded

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

opportune

• suitable, appropriate, or timely

• apparent or professed

• narrow or limited, restricted in scope or range

• immersed in deep, often melancholy, thought

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

ostensible

• apparent or professed

• excluded from a group

• an irrational preoccupation with an idea or feeling

• excessively submissive to another person's wishes or ideas

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

ostracize

• to banish or exclude from a group; to shun

• to reinstate in other words or another form

• to imitate in a mocking or unworthy way

• to be preoccupied with an idea or feeling

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

pandemonium

• general disorder, confusion, noise and commotion

• a seemingly self-contradictory statement that, on closer examination, proves worthy of belief

• a comic imitation of the style, form, or content of a serious piece of work

• a irrational preooccupation with an idea or feeling that usually results in severe anxiety

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6