Vocabulary 11 AND 12

What is your favorite hue? Hue means

• to put into prison

• a particular shade or color

• favorite sports' team

• favorite cuisine

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

hyperbole

• pratical, providing immediate advantage

• extreme exaggeration

• to startle into sudden activity

• to urge on with stirring words

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Sanction

• to startle into sudden activity

• threatning; foreboding evil

• permission or support

• honest

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Galvanize

• to demonstrate clearly

• having to do with the subject at hand

• unable to be pleased or pacified

• to startle into sudden activity

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The clouds were ominous. Ominous means

• white, fluffy

• pleasant, beautiful

• threatening; foreboding evil

• sharp, keen

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The two enemies were in an altercation when we entered the buidling. Altecation means

• heated argument

• physical fight

• banter

• frivolous conversation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

It is important that the information you give is pertinent. Pertinet means

• practical, providing immediate advantage

• false information

• permission to support

• Having to do with the subject at hand

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Implacable

• Unable to be pleased or pacified

• a dictionary, specialized vocabulary

• extreme exaggeration

• rude, boldness or nerve

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to give a stirring speech, to urge on

• gargantuan

• dolorous

• harangue

• Exhort

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

He is a convicted criminal, so he was ___________

• incarcerated

• audacity

• incisive

• formidable

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4