Wordly Wise Book 10 List 5

acrimony

• rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner

• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth

• Bitterness or sharpness of temper, manner, or speech; hostility.

• influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

affinity

• the state or quality of being infinite.

• Attraction for someone or something with which one feels a closeness or kinship.

• a number greater than any assignable quantity or countable number (symbol ∞).

• scold or reprimand severely or angrily

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

ambivalent

• Having mixed, often opposing, feelings about something or someone; indecisive

• careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk

• the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

• someone to whom private matters are told

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

cessation

• Express strong disapproval of

• A stopping, either final or temporary.

• Showing courteous regard for people's feelings

• Exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Emaciated

• Free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberated.

• Very thin or wasted away, especially from lack of nourishment; scrawny.

• To release from parental care and responsibility and make sui juris.

• Appropriate fraudulently to one's own use

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Enclave

• Praise, glorify, or honor

• Unnecessary and unwarranted

• A distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory.

• A state of deep-seated ill-will

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Engender

• Shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way

• Understanding and entering into another's feelings

• Narrowly restricted in outlook or scope

• To bring into being, to produce.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Exacerbate

• Added to an existing or usual amount or number; additional.

• To make more severe, bitter, or violent.

• Quietly and steadily persevering in detail or exactness

• An item in addition to what is usual or strictly necessary.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Illicit

• To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.)

• Not allowed, improper, or unlawful.

• To generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.

• To draw out, bring out, bring forth

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Indigenous

• A cruel and oppressive dictator

• Treatment or circumstances that cause one to feel shame or to lose one's dignity.

• Naturally living or growing in a certain area; native.

• Exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C