Wordly Wise #9

Jim decided he likes the apricot _____ over the apple.

• conserves

• treatise

• pervasion

• skimp

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

We should always strive to ____ water and not waste it.

• conserve

• appraise

• inaugurate

• conifer

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Every four years on January 20th, the United States ______ a president.

• inaugurates

• conserves

• treatise

• appraises

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Jill sometimes feels her grandfather is _____. He doesn't seem to have any interest in new technology like the internet. (But, he loves to dance.)

• hidebound

• stalwart

• bulwark

• chastened

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

My mother ______ on strawberries, so the pie just isn't near as good as usual.

• skimped

• chastened

• embellished

• pervaded

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Howard tends to _____ his stories so no one really believes him.

• embellish

• chasten

• annotate

• stilt

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Joseph was in the library reading a long _____ on nuclear energy.

• treatise

• stilt

• embellishment

• appraisal

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The soldiers built a large _____ to defend against attack.

• bulwark

• stilt

• hidebound

• skimp

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Many students don't know what Mrs. Johnson is feeling since she has such an ______ face.

• impassive

• inaugural

• embellished

• skimpy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Lily likes to buy used books at the college bookstore because many of them are already ______ and marked up.

• annotated

• embellished

• hidebound

• appraised

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E