Vocabulary Unit 2 (12th grade)

Match the following word to its most appropriate sentence.

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

• Provocative

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

• Ineffable

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

• Infantile

• Natalie felt ______ joy when she saw Devin.

• Invoke

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

• 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

• Providential

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

• Improvise

• to pronounce words or parts of words clearly

• Renounce

• an official announcement

• Enunciate

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

• Pronouncement

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.

• Translucent

• Is there any ______ of the weather improving?

• Specter

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

• Circumspect

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

• Invidious

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

• Prospect

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Match the following word to the sentence it most belongs.

• Is there any ______ of the weather improving?

• Prospect

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

• Translucent

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

• Circumspect

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

• Invidious

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

• Specter

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Match the following word to its definition.

• to explain something or make clear

• Phototropic

• well-suited to be photographed

• Photogenic

• growing toward or away from light

• Elucidate

• clearly expressed or thinking or speaking clearly

• Lucid

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

• Phosphorescent

Tags

CCSS.L.1.4B

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.L.K.4B

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.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Renounce

• To call on for support

• Friendly, easy to talk to

• To charge with a crime

• To reject by declaration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

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