Unit 2: Vocabulary Practice (SAT / ACT)

extremely bad

• nuance

• clout

• peculiar

• abysmal

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

to support, strengthen, or fortify

• bolster

• clout

• teeming

• undulate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

to use to your advantage

• diligence

• capitalize

• entail

• indiscriminately

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

clout

• verb; to include

• adjective; barren empty

• noun; special power or advantage

• verb; to prove untrue

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

bare, barren, or empty

• decisive

• debacle

• diligence

• desolate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

the quality of being committed to a task

• dialect

• diligence

• delusion

• abysmal

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

entail (verb): to involve or include.

Choose the sentence that has the correct usage of the word entail.

• A doctoral program entails long nights and a heavy workload.

• A doctoral program entail long nights and a heavy workload.

• A doctoral program entailing long nights and a heavy workload.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

erratic (adjective): having no fixed course; deviating from the course.

Choose the sentence that contains the correct usage of erratic.

• The car became erratics after slipping on ice.

• The car became erratic after slipping on ice.

• The car became eradicated after slipping on ice.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

publicly shameful or humiliating

• bolster

• abysmal

• ignominious

• omnipotent

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

randomly; with little to no distinction

• indiscriminately

• indescribably

• innuendo

• distinctively

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E