Vocabulary Unit 8 Review

showing a lack of intelligence or thought

• arrant

• fatuous

• irrefutable

• lackadaisical

to soak thoroughly

• portend

• recant

• saturate

• slough

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2B

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

to state or assert something without confirmation or proof

• allege

• portend

• raze

• slough

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a massive and inescapable force or object

• echelon

• juggernaut

• litany

• slough

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

to indicate or signify something

• portend

• recant

• saturate

• slough

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to work with opposing parties with the goal of bringing them to an agreement

• allege

• conciliate

• countermand

• exacerbate

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

a small number of something

• arrant

• echelon

• litany

• paucity

to deny believing in something or withdraw something previously said

• badinage

• echelon

• recant

• slough

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

recall somebody or something sent somewhere by a previous order

• allege

• conciliate

• countermand

• saturate

Match the following words to their definitions

• macabre

• to make an already bad or problematic situation worse

• slough

• to shed something

• raze

• gruesome and horrific details of death and decay

• echelon

• to destroy or level a building completely

• exacerbate

• a level of authority or rank in an organization

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C