Vocabulary # 5

Aloof

• a person who believes pleasure is the chief goal

• someone who is clumsy

• detached; distant

• a beginner

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

a combination of different elements

• paucity

• amalgam

• ambiguity

• vitriolic

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The quality or state of having more than one possible meaning

• ambiguity

• boorish

• bowdlerizing

• panache

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Vulgar

• vitriolic

• neophyte

• equanimity

• boorish

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

To remove or delete parts of a book, song, or other work considered offensive

• ubiquitous

• polarize

• bowdlerizing

• diatribe

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Someone who is clumsy

• Bungler

• dilettante

• draconian

• hedonist

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

Characterized by constantly shifting moods

• equanimity

• prognosticator

• paradoxical

• capricious

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

a thunderous verbal attack

• diatribe

• dilettante

• draconian

• bowdlerizing

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

A person with a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge

• neophyte

• hedonist

• prognosticator

• dilettante

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

Bitter; acerbic; filled with malice

• ubiquitous

• panache

• boorish

• vitriolic

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4