Vocabulary Unit 2 (12th grade)

Match the following word to its most appropriate sentence.

• The program will take a detailed and ______ look at the problem of homelessness.

• Ineffable

• Police can ______ the law to regulate access to these places.

• Invoke

• Natalie felt ______ joy when she saw Devin.

• Infantile

• The authorities have ______ their original decision to allow development of this rural area.

• Provocative

• The ______ humor that teenage boys are justly famous for.

• Revoke

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Match the following word to its definition.

• happening exactly when needed but without being planned

• Renounce

• to say formally or publicly that you no longer own, support, or have a connection to something

• Pronouncement

• to invent or make something, such as a speech, at the right time without plan

• Enunciate

• to pronounce words or parts of words clearly

• Providential

• an official announcement

• Improvise

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Match the following word to the sentence it most belongs.

• Such a difficult choice placed her in an ______ position.

• Invidious

• Officials were ______ about saying what the talks had achieved.

• Prospect

• This china is so fine and delicate that it's ______.

• Circumspect

• Is there any ______ of the weather improving?

• Specter

• Drought and war have raised the ______ of food shortages for up to 24 million African people.

• Translucent

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Match the following word to the sentence it most belongs.

• Drought and war have raised the ______ of food shortages for up to 24 million African people.

• Specter

• This china is so fine and delicate that it's ______.

• Prospect

• Officials were ______ about saying what the talks had achieved.

• Circumspect

• Is there any ______ of the weather improving?

• Invidious

• Such a difficult choice placed her in an ______ position.

• Translucent

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Match the following word to its definition.

• well-suited to be photographed

• Phosphorescent

• to explain something or make clear

• Elucidate

• clearly expressed or thinking or speaking clearly

• Phototropic

• growing toward or away from light

• Lucid

• giving off or shining with light, and giving off little to no heat

• Photogenic

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Enunciate

• To reject by declaration

• To pronounce or articulate

• A declaration of opinion

• To call on for support

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

To pronounce or articulate

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Renounce

• To call on for support

• Friendly, easy to talk to

• To charge with a crime

• To reject by declaration

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

To reject by declaration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Renounce

• Noun

• Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E