Vocab - "A Modest Proposal"

Food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment

• sustenance

• rudiments

• collateral

• encumbrance

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

The first principles of (a subject)

• prodigious

• collateral

• rudiments

• expedient

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Something pledged as security for repayment of a loan, to be forfeited in the event of a default

• collateral

• commodities

• encumbrance

• livelihood

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

Humble submission and respect

• raiment

• deference

• repine

• prudence

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

The breeding of specimens of a plant or animal by natural processes from the parent stock.

• commodities

• propagation

• nutritive

• expedient

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a burden or impediment

• encumbrance

• livelihood

• expedient

• lent

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

(of an action) convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral

• expedient

• prodigious

• repine

• deplorable

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Extreme scarcity of food

• famine

• encumbrance

• nutritive

• repine

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee

• commodity

• famine

• repine

• incur

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Become subject to (something unwelcome or unpleasant) as a result of one's own behavior or actions

• deference

• Lent

• repine

• incur

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.4