English I Lesson 5 Vocabulary

(v.) to gather, heap up, or pile up something

• accumulate

• hoard

• portend

• distend

(adj.) unpredictable or lacking in judgment

• capricious

• contentious

• inconceivable

• irrelevant

(adj.) likely to argue or quarrel; likely to cause an argument

• contentious

• capricious

• inflexibility

• distend

(v.) to stretch or spread because of pressure from inside

• distend

• inflexibility

• portend

• queue

(n.) a quantity of things that is collected but often kept secret

• hoard

• accumulate

• parable

• queue

(v.) to collect or amass

• hoard

• accumulate

• portend

• distend

(adj.) unable to be thought of or predicted in advance

• inconceivable

• capricious

• contentious

• underlying

(n.) inability or unwillingness to bend or change

• inflexibility

• irrelevant

• queue

• contentious

(adj.) not related to a topic or situation

• irrelevant

• portend

• distend

• contentious

(n.) a brief story that illustrates a moral point

• parable

• portend

• accumulate

• hoard