Vocab - Into the Wild

Jaunty means -

• easily irritated

• cool and in a formal manner

• having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air

• injurious to physical or mental health

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

Nexus means -

• a political system governed by wealthy people

• a connected series or group

• being twofold

• a jumbled collection or mass

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

We might start with the particular, identifying those institutions and initiatives that embody altruistic instincts and especially the mission to help the most vulnerable.

Altruistic means -

• anachronistic

• conventional

• hierarchical

• philanthropic

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

________ is an adjective that means expensive, excessive, and over the top. A modest chandelier in your dining room is normal. But crystal-studded walls and gold-plated goblets? That's a bit ________.

• unsullied

• onerous

• credo

• extravagant

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

You are ________ when filled with delight and wonder at something, to the point where time seems to stand still. Creators of day time soap operas count on viewers being ________ to make their money.

• burgeon

• infallibility

• enthralled

• estranged

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

If one teacher gives you three hours of homework a night, that's rough. But if all of your teachers do it, that makes the task of completing your homework an ________ one, to say the least. If something is ________, it is very difficult to deal with or do.

• onerous

• extravagant

• enthralled

• credo

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

I felt so contrite when I saw the disappointment in his eyes.

Contrite means -

• defenseless

• uncertain

• sorry

• resentful

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 lines showing internal laminations, said to be primordial sedimentary layers, actually show where those waters percolated through the buried rocks.

Primordial means -

• of or relating to agricultural or farming

• involving or causing danger or risk

• having existed from the beginning

• lacking in liveliness or charm

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 opposite of encrypt is:

• examine

• decode

• institute

• develop

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

With history before us, it is no treason to question the ________ of a court; for courts are never wiser or more venerable than the men composing them, and a decision that reverses precedent cannot arrogate to itself any immunity from reversal.

• disinclination

• lethargy

• aspiration

• infallibility

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