vocab #1

to accept without protest

• acquiesce

• contentious

• disheveled

• allure

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

withdrawn, standing apart from others

• scuttled
• aloof
• alfalfa
• taloned

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time

• heinous

• torpor

• pervasive

• anachronism

• pugnacious

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

extremely bold or daring

• mellow
• audacious
• precarious
• smitten

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Which term means "a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education, such as a coming-of-age story"?

• bildungsroman

• caesura

• catharsis

• eulogy

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

impulsive; given to whim

• redoubtable
• inexorable
• incalculable
• capricious

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What means to criticize harshly?

• Cache

• Castigate

• Capacious

• Bulwark

the arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence

• vehement

• chronology

• castigate

• unequivocal

distrustful or contemptuous of virtue, selflessness in others believing the worst of others

• cynical

• aloof

• confrontational

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Which word means to condemn openly; to accuse formally?

• dispatch

• denounce

• gainful

• ingenious

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F