Wuthering Heights Vocabulary

Hale meaning

• someone who is strong

  and in good health

• someone who is easily

  annoyed and grumpy

• being rude and lack of

  respect

• To relax or rest

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Cur meaning

• brief and to the point

• open land usually with

  peaty soil

• an inferior dog or one of

  mixed breed

• practicing great self-

  denial

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Peevish synonym

• Spread

• Hardy

• Messy

• Irritated

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The teenager touched the screen to actuate the mobile app.

What does Actuate mean in this sentence ?

• Uncommunicative

• to put into mechanical

  action or motion

• scatter with spaces in

  between

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The man's slovenly dress was a result of him being homeless for a month.

Slovenly meaning in this sentence?

• having rugged physical

  strength; inured to

  fatigue or hardships

• lacking in physical

  beauty or proportion

• negligent of neatness

  especially in dress and

  person

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Our greatest tacit understanding is I do not care, you ignored me.

Tacit meaning in this sentence?

• understood or implied without being stated

• brief and to the point

• practicing great self-

  denial

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Conjecture meaning

• To relax or rest

• Scatter with spaces in between

• When you are not sure of something

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Laconic meaning

• Brief and to the point

• someone who is easily annoyed and grumpy

• the appearance of someone's face

• lean body with strong muscles

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Moor meaning

• Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

• lacking in physical beauty or proportion

• an inferior dog or one of mixed breed

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Meaning of Physiognomy :

• to relax and rest

• the appearance of someone's face

• To the point and brief

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4