Word of the Day Term 2 #1- 15 (I'll +++ this week)

Very strange or odd. (He was at ease with the ---- discussion.)

• bamboozle

• aspire

• accentuate

• bizarre

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise unalike. 2. An explanation of something by comparing it with something similar.

Examples:

Frosty : snowman : : Rudolph : _______________ ribbon : present : : ornament : ________________

• bizarre

• analogy

• boycott

• alliteration

To have great ambition. (When I was young, I would ---- to be a famous actress.)

• accentuate

• chronology

• aspire

• commemorate

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The repetition of the same sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters, especially at the beginning of words.

Example: 1st stanza from "The Raven"

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

Only this and nothing more.”

• antibody

• alliteration

• analogy

• aspire

To deceive by elaborate trickery; hoodwink (I got ----ed by the salesperson to buy a more expensive model.)

• boisterous

• cower

• bamboozle

• camouflage

1. Rough and stormy; violent 2. Noisy and lacking restraint or discipline (The front door was in continual motion with guests coming and going, amid laughter and ------- conversation.)

• cower

• boisterous

• boycott

• accentuate

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

verb- To act together in refusing to use, buy from, or deal with, especially as an expression of protest. noun- A refusal to buy from or deal with a person, business, or nation, especially in the form of protest.

• boycott

• camouflage

• commemorate

• bamboozle

1. The order or sequence of events. 2. A list or table of events analyzed in order of time of occurrence. (The chief events are in ----- order.)

• cower

• antibody

• chronological

• boycott

1. To honor the memory of especially with a ceremony. 2. To be a memorial to, as a holiday, ceremony, or statue.

Example sentence: The Flight 93 National Memorial is a 2,200-acre national park to ____ the heroic actions of the 40 passengers and crew who prevented a terrorist attack on our nation's capital.

• common

• commemorate

• aspire

• accentuate

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CCSS.L.5.5C

To crouch or draw back, as from fear or pain; cringe (Even though he was terrified of the bigger dog, the little puppy wouldn't ---- in front of him.)

• cower

• courage

• bizarre

• boisterous

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4