vocabulary workshop Level C units

Broken stone or bricks; ruins

• revert
• preclude
• wrangle
• rubble

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The pair engaged in a wrangle that caused a commotion in the hallway.  Wrangle means:

• to return
• to float or hang suspended over
• to rise to a higher level
• a noisy quarrel

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

My brother and sister always _____________over whose turn it is to take out the trash.

• invalidate

• relevant

• wrangle

• hover

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Thousands attended the solemn _____________at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

• collaboration

• vigil

• detriment

• longevity

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Most serious performers prefer constructive criticism to _______________flattery.

• reverted

• congested

• servile

• devoid

Bulldozers and wrecking balls son reduced the damaged building to a heap of smoking ________________.

• amass

• incognito

• rubble

• servile

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Control of a property usually _______________to the legal owner when a lease is up or finished.

• enterprises

• reverts

• invalidates

• vies

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 was the first step in releasing African Americans from their servile bonds. Based on context, servile most likely means... 

• slavish, groveling, fawning
• masterly, overbearing
• harmonious, in agreement
• surly, ill-tempered

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

With tireless devotion, the ailing child's parents kept an anxious vigil at her bedside. Based on context, vigil most likely means... 

• watch, lookout, state of wakefulness
• squabble, bicker
• wreckage, debris
• boos, disproval, ridicule

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Before the new housing project could be built, it was necessary to tear down the old houses and remove the rubble. Based on context, rubble most likely means... 

• progress, advance
• wreckage, debris
  
• squabble, bicker
• windfall, bonanza, godsend

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A