Words of the Day

Definition of: encumbur

• marked by uncontrollable exuberance : unruly

• clear and transparent

• to impede or hamper the function or activity: hamper

• something that softens or soothes

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Definition of: Ruddy

• tedious, wearisome

• having a healthy reddish color

• joint, connection

• untidy or unruly

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Definition of: Juncture

• point of time

• existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread

• next to puncture

• to have the specious appearance of being, intending or claiming

  (something implied or inferred)

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Definition of: Sisyphean

• of relating to, suggestive of the labor of Sisyphus; requiring continual or ineffective effort

• to make a careful or detailed search for information

• absolutely serene and untroubled

• a spring that is the source of a stream

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Definition of: Cronyism

• favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship

• in a sidling or cautiously indirect manner

• partiality to cronies especially as evidenced in the appointment of political hangers-on to office without regard to their qualifications

• a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Definition of: Translucent

• permitting the passage of light:

  : transmitting and diffusing light so that objects beyond cannot be seen clearly

• marked by uncontrollable exuberance : unruly

• to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice

• a glove worn with medieval armor to protect the hand

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C