Vocabulary Workshop Level B Unit 9 Words 1-10

to speed up, cause to move faster; to bring about more quickly

• accelerate

• melancholy

• ordeal

• parch

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

One who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part

• parch

• ordeal

• melancholy

• bystander

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The students volunteered to ___________the neighborhood for our candidates.

• regal

• stifle

• vital

• canvass

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Synonym for mistreated, ground underfoot

• quibble

• stifle

• puny

• downtrodden

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to attract, tempt

• entice

• flounder

• graphic

• accelerate

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

happening by chance or on an irregular basis; showing little concern; informal

• gruesome

• casual

• melancholy

• ordeal

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

to wear away gradually, eat away

• erode

• graphic

• melancholy

• ordeal

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Synonym for wallow, struggle

• flounder

• erode

• casual

• bystander

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A witness gave the reporter a ____________ account of the destruction caused by the tornado.

• ordeal

• parch

• graphic

• casual

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

horrible, revolting, ghastly

• gruesome

• ordeal

• parch

• canvass

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A