Sophomore English Week 4

Gloomy or morose

• Superfluous
• Impervious 
• Sullen
• Hone

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily

• Reticent
• Doleful
• Ebullient
• Devoid

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

poisonous

• combustible
• induce
• inert ingredient
• toxic

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

oppressively solemn or sober in mood; grave.

• somber
• dehumanization
• alienation 
• reason 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Freely given; not called for by circumstances, unwarranted

• bedlam
• reprobate
• gratuitous
• reprobate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does the word ZENITH mean?

• a patio or balcony
• to be powerful and violent
• the point in the sky directly overhead
• to move in an unsteady way

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

based on a mistaken belief.

• fallacious
• strenuous
• patriarchal
• rhetorical

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

able to adapt or be adapted to many different functions or activities.

• versatile
• concoction
• recluse
• fragrance

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Hyperboles are phrases that

• compare two unlike things

• exaggerate

• give person-like qualities to animals and things

• have a different meaning than the words.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

coming at a bad time; not appropriate 

• inopportune
• extirpate
• brandish
• destitute 

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4