AP lang vocab. #4

Match the word to the definition

• Lethargic

• Praise; applause; admiration

• Acclaim

• To ridicule; to make fun of

• Deride (derision)

• To create: to produce

• Engender

• Tired; languid;weak

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

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• Ambivalent

• Serious; grave

• Fanatic

• One who is very devoted to a cause or an idea

• Novel

• New; unusual

• Solemn

• Undecided

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

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• Scanty

• Quiet; uncommunicative; taciturn

• Reticent

• Free from passion or spirit

• Fervor

• Practical

• Pragmatic

• Inadequate; minimal

• Dispassionate

• Passion; zeal; great enthusiasm

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Match the following

• Vacillate

• To waiver between choices

• Alleviate

• To lighten or relieve

• Didactic

• A show of respect

• Deference (defer)

• Instructive

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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• Conspicuous

• Carelessness; neglect; indifference

• Endorse

• To approve of; to give support to

• Negligence

• Easily seen; out in the open

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

Match the word that's used in the sentence

• The soldiers were ordered to appear before a disciplinary council on charges of --------------------

• Alleviate

• Nowadays, a great deal can be done to

  ------------ back pain

• Conspicuous

• Not one bank teller made her ------------- the checks even though she was receiving the funds

• Vacillate

• The building is

  ------------- and strikingly shaped

• Negligence

• She -------- between studying economics and languages

• Endorse

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Match the word that's used in the sentence

• In totalitarian societies, art exists for --------- purposes

• Scanty

• So far, what -------- evidence we have points to two suspects

• Dispassionate

• He spoke in the flat, -------- tone of a lecturer

• Deference (defer)

• There was a sensible and --------- solution

• Pragmatic

• Out of ------- to him, I lowered my head as he prayed

• Didactic

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

Match the word that's used in the sentence

• Protesters found a ------- way of demonstrating against steeply rising oil prices

• Reticent

• Sara had attended church more as a social function than from religious ------

• Fervor

• She remained ------- about her marriage

• Novel

• His --------- little face broke into smiles

• Ambivalent

• As a -------- sort, the England defender was reluctant to hog the limelight

• Solemn

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Match the word that's used in the sentence

• She has been ---- for her leading roles

• Fanatic

• He felt too miserable and ----to get dressed

• lethargic

• It can ----- feelings of sympathy or pity, outrage and disgust

• Engender

• The work of these artists is frequently

  -----, for being both too ugly and not ugly enough

• Acclaim

• It just shows what happens when you let the ---------- take over

• Deride

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6