Unit 1 Vocabulary

DEFINITION: Clothing, that which serves as dress or decoration. To put clothes on, dress up.

• Apparel

• inept

• repast

• forsake

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

DEFINITION: A meal, food.

• instantaneous

• recede

• ingenious

• repast

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

DEFINITION: Plainly, in so many words; for a particular purpose.

• denounce

• immense

• expressly

• forsake

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

DEFINITION: To plunge into a liquid, drench; to put out quickly, extinguish.

• douse

• libel

• oaf

• irk

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

DEFINITION: A feeling of fear, doubt, or uncertainty

• recede

• misgiving

• compress

• gainful

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD: Select the boldface word that best completes each sentence.

His notebooks show that Leonardo da Vinci was not only a masterful artist, but an (inept, ingenious) inventor as well.

• inept

• ingenious

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD: Select the boldface word that best completes each sentence.

We can (compress, besiege) the message of the sermon into one short sentence: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”

• compress

• besiege

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD: Select the boldface word that best completes each sentence.

The beauty of the Grand Canyon is so (immense, instantaneous) that it is absolutely impossible to capture its grandeur on film.

• immense

• instantaneous

CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD: Select the boldface word that best completes each sentence.

Tom may not be as polished and clever as some of the other boys, but I think it is unfair of you to call him an (apparel, oaf).

• apparel

• oaf

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD: Select the boldface word that best completes each sentence.

When I realized that I was thoroughly prepared for the final exams, my fears quickly (receded, irked).

• receded

• irked

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4