Sadlier Level E Unit 6 Review: Definitions

accede

• to yield to; to assume an office or dignity
• comfort, relief; to comfort, console
• stale, moldy; out-of-date
• dignified, majestic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

brandish

• to wave or flourish in a menacing or vigorous fashion
• coming at a bad time; not appropriate
• to include or contain; to be made of
• meddling; excessively forward in offering services or assuming authority

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

comprise

• to include or contain; to be made of
• to stop by force, put down
• open to or marked by bribery or corruption
• growing without check, running wild

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

deft

• skillful, nimble
• dignified, majestic
• unfavorable, threatening, of a bad omen
• to stop by force, put down

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

destitute

• deprived of the necessities of life; lacking in
• suggesting an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually happens; given to irony; sarcastic
• a high peak or point
• stale, moldy; out-of-date

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

explicit

• definite, clearly stated
• to include or contain; to be made of
• unfavorable, threatening, of a bad omen
• stale, moldy; out-of-date

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

extirpate

• to tear up by the roots; to destroy totally
• meddling; excessively forward in offering services or assuming authority
• to stop by force, put down
• coming at a bad time; not appropriate

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

inopportune

• coming at a bad time; not appropriate
• skillful, nimble
• growing without check, running wild
• to include or contain; to be made of

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

ironic

• suggesting an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually happens; given to irony; sarcastic
• open to or marked by bribery or corruption
• dignified, majestic
• coming at a bad time; not appropriate

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

musty

• stale, moldy; out-of-date
• growing without check, running wild
• considered beforehand, deliberately planned
• unfavorable, threatening, of a bad omen

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4