5-A-DAY Vocabulary Building Word # 1

Evoke...

• a scarcity or lack of something.

• having a strong influence or effect on someone.

• to call forth or summon; to bring to mind or recollection.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Impending means...

• (especially something unpleasant) that is about to happen soon.

• seeming difficult to deal with in anticipation.

• very strange or unusual.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Cite (citation)...

• visually attractive, especially in a quaint or pretty style.

• to see something or someone new.

• a quotation from or explicit reference to a source of information.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Profusion...

• easily influenced; pliable.

• an abundance or large quantity of something .

• to make known something private or secret.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Outlandish...

• looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar.

• due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others.

• hopeful and confident about the future.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Console...

• excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements.

• having no plan, order or direction.

• to give comfort and sympathy to someone who is sad or disappointed. OR a panel with a number of switches or knobs that is used to operate a machine.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Vicarious means...

• bend one's head and body in fear or in a servile manner.

• the matter from which a thing is or can be made.

• having a second-hand experience by watching or listening to other people's activities.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Dissuade means...

• the writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.

• to advise (a person ) against doing something; to convince someone not to do something.

• a promoter in the entertainment industry.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Conflict is a...

• the problem in the text that causes a struggle between two opposing forces, usually a protagonist and an antagonist.

• the denouement of a drama, especially a classical tragedy.

• a shortened form of a word or phrase.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Haphazard means ...

• having no plan, order or direction.

• failure to take proper care in doing something.

• a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed by a person or a restricted group of people.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C