"Anthem" Vocabulary

Transgression:

• A business deal

• The process of transmitting something

• An offense

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Deigned:

• To do something beneath one's dignity

• Planned in detail

• To hold royal office

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Taut:

• Stretched or pulled tight

• A remark made in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone

• To solicit something in an aggressive way

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Vice:

• Behavior showing high moral standards

• Immoral or wicked behavior

• To show clearly

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Virtue:

• A sensation of whirling and loss of balance

• Being almost or nearly as described

• Behavior showing high moral standards

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

A heap of combustible material, especially one for burning a corpse as part of a funeral ceremony

• Lassitude

• Taut

• Abyss

• Pyre

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Lack of energy

• Latitude

• Lassitude

• Longitude

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Abyss:

• An isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides

• A deep or seemingly bottomless chasm

• Land with no hills, valleys, or mountains

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

With an excessively high appearance of oneself or in a way that produces no result

• Vainly

• Vice

• Virtue

• Vicissitude

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Objectivism:

• The principle of sacrificing individual needs for the sake of the common good

• A philosophy that supports reality, reason, self-interest, and capitalism

• A type of government that demands individual subservience to the state

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6