Chapter 3 Vocabulary 8th

Collaborate

• to compete
• to stop working
• to team up
• to stir up

Fritter

• to earn
• to count
• to pay for
• to waste

Meeting my brother in the cafeteria at lunchtime was inadvertent. We had arranged the night before to meet for lunch.

• Correct
• Incorrect

I tried to _______ the laugh rising in my throat, but seeing the boss looking all over his desk for the glasses he had put on his head was too funny.

• squelch
• venerate
• berate
• corroborate

This word describes a sentence with more than one possible meaning. 

• benefactor
• ambiguous 
• encumber 
• reluctant 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to place close together, especially in order to compare and/or contrast

• embellish

• juxtapose

• sporadic

• ambiguous

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

a great lack of energy; inactivity due to laziness; sluggishness

• inane

• dissident

• lethargy

• sporadic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

able to be interpreted in more than one way; not clear

• ambiguous

• inadvertent

• subsidize

• fritter

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

without sense or meaning; foolish

• inane

• ambiguous

• inadvertent

• sporadic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

without sense or meaning; foolish

• inane

• ambiguous

• inadvertent

• sporadic