NWEA ELA Vocab List: Week #2

endowment

• a natural gift, ability, or quality

• in a detailed and carefully arranged manner

• represented graphically by sketch or design or lines

• a small amount

generous and friendly to guests and visitors

• innocent

• impassive

• hospitable

• patriarch

reasonable

• structure

• innocent

• rational

• impassive

highest church official; male head of the family

• parent

• patriarch

• portrayed

• paternal

the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work

• structure

• sterile

• arduous

• portrayed

to manage or control

• regulate

• practical

• rational

• impassive

not guilty

• innocent

• impassive

• regulate

• portrayed

plot

• Sequence of events in a story

• showing no emotions

• not guilty

• to manage or control

a small amount

• sparingly

• distinguished

• elaborately

• innocent

difficult; requiring much effort

• arudous

• sparingly

• showing no emotion

• free from germs