Vocabulary Workshop [H]: Unit 3 review

(v) to come down or stoop voluntarily to a lower level; to deal with people in a patronizing manner

• condescend

• cozen

• bowdlerize

• mountebank

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

(n) lighthearted joking, talk, or writing

• macrocosm

• icon

• enclave

• persiflage

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

(n) a representation or image of a sacred personage; an image or picture; an object of blind devotion

• macrocosm

• icon

• enclave

• persiflage

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

(v) to remove material considered offensive (from a book, play, film, etc)

• condescend

• cozen

• bowdlerize

• persiflage

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

(n) any division or separation of a group into hostile factions

• schism

• plethora

• virtuoso

• paean

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

(n) the universe considered as a whole; the entire complex structure of something

• macrocosm

• icon

• enclave

• persiflage

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

(adj) concerned with practical considerations or values

• quizzical

• pragmatic

• ancillary

• therapeutic

(n) an enclosed district, region, or area inhabited by a particular group of people or having a special character

• macrocosm

• icon

• enclave

• persiflage

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

(n) a trickster or swindler

• rapacity

• forte

• interstice

• mountebank

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

(adj) subordinate or supplementary

• quizzical

• pragmatic

• ancillary

• therapeutic