Sadlier F - Unit 8 Vocab

SYNONYMS: biting, hostile, caustic, peevish

• acrimonious

• consternated

• dispassionate

• squeamish

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

ANTONYMS: alert, bright, quick, keen

• bovine

• subservient

• ignoble

• impugn

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

SYNONYMS: emotional, amazement, bewilderment, dismay

• consternation

• dispassionate

• perfidy

• odium

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Antonyms: slender, lean, gaunt, emaciated

• corpulent

• acrimonious

• intemperate

• hypothetical

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

SYNONYMS: disown, disclaim, retract

• disavow

• relegate

• expurgate

• impugn

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The zombie dealt with life's disasters in an unemotional, ____ way.

• dispassionate

• hypothetical

• odious

• ignoble

The question of whether to order pizza or tacos caused some _____ at the party.

• dissension

• perfidy

• susceptibility

• expurgation

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.2.4C

I wish you would stop _________ all of your energy on such foolish ideas.

• dissipating

• expurgating

• impugning

• relegating

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The teacher ____ the naughty words from her student's formal essay.

• expurgated

• relegated

• consternated

• impugned

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The celebrities had to run a ____ of television cameras to get inside

• gauntlet

• bovine

• subservience

• dissension

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C