Building Vocabulary Skills Chapter 20

notable

• to rise up or come forth

• thrifty; avoiding unnecessary expenses

• tending to act on sudden urges; ot in the habit of planning ahead

• famous; widely known

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

In my student days, when I was very poor, I sometimes daydreamed about being rich and having an amazingly affluent lifestyle. I imagined being such a(n) ______ member of society that my name would turn up in the newspaper columns every time I attended a party.

Frugal

• giving in to someone's desires, often too much so; lenient

• thrifty; avoiding unnecessary expenses

• having no real interest; unconcerned

• average; ordinary; neither very bad nor very good

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Foreign; from a different part of the world; strange or different in an appealing way.

• indifferent

• notable

• exotic

• impulsive

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Every time Sylvia shops, she manages to _____ from the store with only items that are on sale.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

Giving in to someone's desires, often too much so; lenient

• indulgent

• impulsive

• liberal

• indifferent

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

emerge

• tending to act on sudden urges; not in the habit of planning ahead

• to rise up or come forth

• famous; widely known

• done with great attention to details; complicated

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The _____ meal, full of strange but delicious foods, involved _____ preparation that took up most of the afternoon. But all the work was worth it; we savored every bite.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

average; ordinary; neither very bad nor very good

• elaborate

• indifferent

• mediocre

• notable

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Norma left the waiter a _____ tip because he had been especially friendly and helpful.

• elaborate

• impulsive

• frugal

• liberal