Vocabulary 7B

a close-knit, often exclusive, group of people with a common interest

• counterpart

• effrontery

• coterie

• misanthrope

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

to lessen or relieve

• embellish

• allay

• demur

• jettison

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to decorate, adorn, touch up

• demur

• embellish

• allay

• jettison

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

tastelessly showy or overdecorated in a vulgar or offensive way

• pertinacious

• garish

• bestial

• illusory

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

to cast off, discard, dump, junk, abandon

• allay

• demur

• jettison

• embellish

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

festive, sociable, having fun together, genial

• convivial

• furtive

• picayune

• indigent

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

far too great, exceeding reasonable limits, excessive

• picayune

• pertinacious

• garish

• inordinate

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

of little value or importance, paltry, measly

• indigent

• bestial

• ephemeral

• picayune

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

clothing, garments

• raiment

• coterie

• effrontery

• counterpart

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

beastlike

• felicitous

• garish

• bestial

• pertinacious