TKAM Chapters 9-11 Vocabulary

Synonyms for this word are comfort, relief, and support:

• provocation

• propensity

• palliation

• rectitude

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A white, tasteless substance used for medicinal purposes would be:

• invective

• apoplectic

• trousseau

• calomel

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

It never fails that Mrs. Dant becomes ______________ stressed at the end of the school year.

• inordinately

• umbrage

• undulate

• ingenuous

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Antonyms for this word are happy, cheerful, and pleasant:

• rectitude

• analogous

• cantankerous

• ingenuous

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The salesmen at Dunder Mifflin decided they needed to do some _______________ on other paper company competitors to try to steal their clients.

• reconnaissance

• palliation

• provocation

• interdict

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Insulting or critical language being used is considered a/an:

• articulate

• trousseau

• interdict

• invective

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Leslie became extremely _______________ when she found out that her proposal to build a local park had been denied.

• apoplectic

• ingenuous

• umbrage

• inordinate

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Synonyms for this word are a displeasure, an annoyance, and anger:

• cantankerous

• undulate

• philippic

• umbrage

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Another word for your peers would be your:

• propensities

• contemporaries

• invectives

• calomels

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Scout walked away from a potential fight despite extreme _______________ from her disrespectful classmate.

• rectitude

• reconnaissance

• provocation

• propensity

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4