High Level Vocabulary

deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal

• aberrant
• alacrity
• exigent
• castigate
• exonerate

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness

• alacrity
• assuage
• didactic
• inveigle
• prodigious

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to soothe, calm, or mollify: to make milder or less severe

• assuage
• censure
• inured
• acumen
• prodigal

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

strong or vehement expression of disapproval

• censure
• disparate
• obviate
• harangue
• acumen

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

complicated; intricately involved

• convoluted
• lucid
• ebullience
• urbane
• flout

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar

• disparate
• obviate
• incipient
• germane
• polemical

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.

• enervate
• aberrant
• pernicious
• implacable
• pervasive

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

requiring immediate action or aid; urgent; pressing.

• exigent
• lucid
• exonerate
• pedantic
• specious

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate

• inured
• exigent
• incipient
• implacable
• proclivity

easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible

• lucid
• dogmatic
• inveigle
• placate
• prosaic

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F