AP. Lang vocab. #5

Jeopardy

• Danger

• Greed

• Friendship

• critical; crucial

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Use it in a sentence >>> Jeopardy

• Taking such a financial risk could put your retirement income in ----

• An arrangement of songs with a ----center point

• Out of sight of the dunes Alison was once more her ----- self

• The corporate world is plagued by ---- and a thirst for power

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

supercilious

• haughty; arrogant

• on the edge; surrounding; unimportant

• pleasure-seeking; indulgent

• a generous donor; someone who helps

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5B

Use supercilious in a sentence

• I felt looked down upon by the ----- woman that stared at my clothing.

• Provision was made for the ----- control of all local authorities by the central government.

• Not long after the return of the pope the ---- between the Vatican and the Tuileries was again broken.

• Our legislators have become ---- over the last century.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

Avarice

• greed

• important; critical; crucial

• free-spirited; carefree

• careful; diligent; moral

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

Avarice in a scentence

• To the cruelty and ------ of Charles he opposed a generous humanity.

• ----- legislation controls prison labour.

• She tried to feel happy for them, but all she could feel was ----- toward Lori.

• It is used to designate an ----writing entitled in the older MSS.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

pivotal

• important; critical; crucial

• free-spirited; carefree

• careful; diligent; moral

• changeable; unstable; explosive

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

pivotal in a sentence

• What ----- role will be performed by Neo's adoring acolyte

• Europeans are not quite so ----- on these matters, having seen the continent decimated twice in the past century by war.

• I was still excessively ----- about everything I wrote

• Both forms are --- in steam

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

blithe

• free-spirited; carefree

• careful; diligent; moral

• changeable; unstable; explosive

• very large; spacious

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

blithe in a sentence

• Europeans are not quite so ---- on these matters

• I was still excessively ---- about everything I wrote.

• Crop yields are highly ------ and unpredictably so.

• But for the great white shark that terrorized ----- Island in Jaws, humans are his meal of choice.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C