Vocabulary #6 12th Grade

The student who threw the Chromebook across the room was severely __________ by both the teacher and the principal.

• upbraided

• impugned

• beskermed

• deprecated

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

You shall be severely ______ for your flagrant indiscretions.

• rebuked

• detrimented

• deviated

• beholden

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

My enemies constantly harry and _______ me, yet I stand as a bulwark against their onslaughts. They are weak. I am strong. I am as strong as a bosveld lion falling upon a gemsbok while fending off the jackals and hyenas.

• impugn

• rebuff

• reprove

• castigate

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Suzie engages in a little self-___________ sometimes to keep herself honest.

• deprecation

• reproof

• impunity

• banefulness

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

Castigate and chastize both come from the ______ word "castigare" and both mean to _________.

• Latin; punish

• Danish; enjoy

• French; cast away

• Latin; castrate

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Johnny _______ his son so harshly about drinking and driving that he started crying and said he was sorry and would never do it again.

• berated

• baned

• bedecked

• bereft

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

One of the oldest records of someone's excuse for not being able to go to work is from Ancient Egypt. There is a record of one guy being "stung by a scorpion." The scorpion's venom is extremely _______, so you can see why he couldn't make it that day.

• virulent

• rancorous

• ominous

• bestraffing

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets was especially ________, and this conflict drives the plot of Romeo and Juliet.

• rancorous

• odious

• iniquitous

• devious

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Lady Macbeth planted in her husband's mind the ___________ scheme of killing King Duncan in order that he might the crown of Scotland seize.

• pernicious

• vermicious

• ominous

• virulent

The dark clouds hanging on the horizon looked very ______.

• ominous

• ongelooflik

• odious

• nefarious

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E