7th grade vocab unit

We are shocked that they broke up since no one gave any ______________________________ that there had been any problems in their marriage.

• intimation
• privy
• savor
• pungent

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

(n.) a hint, indirect suggestion

• Ambidextrous

• Augment

• Deploy

• Gibe

• Intimation

an expression of sorrow 

• lamentation
• magnanimous 
• anachronism
• feral 

It was a time for mourning and ___________.

• cryptic

• lamentation

• tentative

• bolster

capable of being perceived

• combustion

• suborn

• unruly

• palpable

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

____________________ often describes an intense feeling of terror.

• intrigued

• defiant

• palpable

in a forceful way

• emphatically

• tantalizing

• exquisite

• fugitives

Tony defended his grandfather very ________________ and passionately.

• inscription
• emphatically
• abrupt
• engulfed

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

to make a serious effort; to attempt

• endeavor
• defer
• equate
• impose

used to describe speech that is meant to be funny but that is usually regarded as annoying, silly, or not proper; sarcastic

• formidable

• facetious

• enmity

• evanescent