Freshman Vocabulary 5

Which is a synonym for comprehend.

• Imperceptible

• covert

• fathom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

Which word means the same as the word in italics?

The pilot had to continually measure the river, which drought conditions had lowered to unprecedented levels

• fathom

• lull

• heed

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Kind and generous to guests or strangers

• Hospitable

• Provoke

• Maligned

• Peril

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

languorous

• creating a dreamy, lazy mood

• liveliness; energy

• a man dating a woman

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

During a ___________ in business, Evan walked all around the stand, picking up discarded plastic cups.

• miser
• stern
• privilege
• lull

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

The shelter was _________ about finding good homes for the kittens.

• persevere
  
• resolute
• sneer

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What is the meaning of the word slacken or slackening?

• to slow down
• to speed up
• to feel ill
• to be sassy

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

suitor

• a set of clothes made for men

• admirer, a man who wants to marry a particular woman.

• suitcase

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Which word MOST NEARLY matches the following synonyms? bewildered, chagrined, humiliated

• abashed

• roiling

• phenomena

• miraculous

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Forgive me for being ______in these desperately serious times, but sometimes ridicule is the only release from anger.

• facetious

• cower

• assert

• volatile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6