Sadlier Unit 7A Vocabulary

To transport; to transmit; to communicate, make known; to transfer ownership or title to.

Synonyms: carry, send, impart

• exotic

• convey

• haggard

• juncture

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Foreign; charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual.

Synonyms: strange, alien, picturesque, colorful

Antonyms: native, indigenous, familiar, commonplace

• juncture

• menial

• exotic

• haggard

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Thin, pale, and careworn as a result of worry or suffering; wild-looking.

Synonyms: drawn, gaunt, wasted

Antonyms: healthy, glowing, hale and hearty

• juncture

• menial

• parry

• haggard

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

A quality or characteristic belonging to or associated with someone or something. To assign to, credit with; to regard as caused by or resulting from.

Synonyms: trait, ascribe

• attribute

• convey

• exotic

• haggard

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Lowly, humble, lacking importance or dignity.

A person who does humble and unpleasant tasks.

Antonyms: lofty, elevated; boss, master

Synonyms: underling, scullion, servant

• menial

• tawdry

• parry

• turncoat

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

To ward off, fend off, evade, avoid.

A defensive movement in fencing and other sports.

• parry

• tawdry

• turncoat

• wallow

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Showy and flashy but lacking in good taste.

Synonyms: loud, gaudy, tacky, vulgar

Antonyms: refined, tasteful, subdued, muted

• turncoat

• wallow

• tawdry

• attribute

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A person who switches to an opposing side or party.

Synonyms: quisling, deserter, renegade

Antonyms: loyalist, diehard

• wallow

• turncoat

• attribute

• convey

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

To roll about in a lazy, clumsy, or helpless way; to overindulge in; to have in abundance.

A wet, muddy, or dusty area used by animals as a sort of bath; a state of moral or physical collapse.

Synonyms: delight in, bask in

• attribute

• exotic

• wallow

• convey

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A joining together; the point at which two things are joined; any point in time.

Synonyms: union, seam, joint, turning point

• tawdry

• parry

• menial

• juncture

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C