Lit Vocabulary page25

When I walked up on the wild pig, I was surprised to find it was really quite ______.

• gauche
• docile
• anathema
• ca

A _______________ message left on our voicemail made us suspect the caller had the wrong number. 

• cascade
• arrears
• onset
• sinister

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

lacking moral restraint; scornful of what is right.

• purloin

• incorrigible

• culpable

• unscrupulous

He has been called _____, but I have found him to be an honest, moral person.

• sulky

• unscrupulous

• optimistic

• supplemental

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

The class watched the ____ teacher take a deep breath before she reprimanded the student.

• tersing

• maritiming

• benighting

• seething

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

An attitude of superiority or feeling that you are better than someone else.

• enthusiasm

• arrogance

• assertiveness

• self-esteem

arrogance

• threatening trouble or bad luck
• overbearing pride
• to long for or desire
• dishonest

frivolous

• not knowing wrong from right
• gentle; easily managed
• self-satisfied
• silly; unimportant

kindle

• to boil; to bubble and foam
• to reject with scorn
• to ignite; to arouse or excite
• to long for or desire

sinister

• gentle; easily managed
• threatening trouble or bad luck
• dishonest; having no sense of right and wrong
• silly; unimportant