8 - Vocab List #8

Apathy

• A sudden knowing of which path leads to success

• A lack or interest or emotion

• A painful or difficult experience

• A blunt refusal of emptiness

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Bludgeon

• A large insurmountable animal that blocks the way

• To strike with a club

• A short, heavy club with one end heavier than the other

• A ghostly apparition

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Cursory

• Wretched, hopeless and pitiful

• Clear, expressive and moving in speech

• A cursor that is shaking with intense caffeine intake

• Performed quickly with little attention to detail

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Eloquent

• A very fancy handkerchief

• Too numerous to be counted

• Wretched, hopeless and pitiful

• Clear, expressive and moving in speech

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Wretched, hopeless and pitiful

• A dead cat

• Forlorn

• Murky

• Ominous

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Innumerable

• Cloudy; unclear

• Not enough; impotent

• Too numerous to be counted

• Dark and Gloomy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Murky

• Swampy, a stretching landscape

• Chunky; moist

• Dark and gloomy

• Cloudy; unclear

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Ordeal

• A blunt refusal

• A painful or difficult experience

• A ghostly apparition

• A bird of Egyptian mythology

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A bird of Egyptian Mythology that periodically burned itself up and then rose from the ashes...

• Sphinx

• Rebuff

• Hawk

• Phoenix

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Rebuff

• to refuse bluntly; a blunt refusal

• to be wretched, hopeless, or pitiful

• to agree quickly; a quick agreement

• to make a final demand or threat

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C