Lesson 11

to increase in size, amount, or degree

• augment

• embellish

• execute

• hallowed

• impersonate

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

favorable; not threatening

• malevolent

• discern

• precarious

• benign

• ornate

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a person with extensive knowledge, especially of the fine arts; a person of refined taste

• renown

• connoisseur

• pastoral

• grotesque

• augment

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Select the correct answer choice(s) that best match the vocabulary word discern.

• to detect with eyes

• to understand or comprehend

• to recognize as separate or different

• to create, as a work of art

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

to add fictitious details to

• embellish

• pastoral

• precarious

• benign

• discern

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

to put to death as a legal penalty

• execute

• renown

• malevolent

• augment

• halllowed

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Select the sentence the uses the word exemplify correctly.

• His works exemplify the taste of the period.

• The solution to the mystery became clear to the detective when he learned that one woman had exemplified another when renting the apartment.

• Exemplifying criminals condemned to the death is a controversial practice.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

so distorted or strange as to appear bizarre or comical

• grotesque

• hallowed

• augment

• benign

• connoisseur

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Is the word "hallowed" used correctly in the following sentence, yes or no?

Arlington National Cemetery is hallowed ground because it is the burial place for soldiers who have died in war.

• Yes

• No

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What does it mean to impersonate?

• to mimic

• to assume the character of appearance of

• to carry out; to perform

• to understand or comprehend

• to make beautiful by adding decorative elements

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D