Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level G: Unit 1

Acquisitive

• to claim or take without right

• able to retain information; concerned with acquiring wealth

• hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Arrogate

• to claim or take without right

• habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

• capable of being held or defended

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Banal

• capable of being held or defended

• refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

• hackneyed, trite, commondplace

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Belabor

• holding on sticking together; comprehensible, meaningful

• tending to find fault, petty, nagging criticism

• to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Carping

• to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexoble

• tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty way

• a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Coherent

• to avoid, shun, keep away from

• holding on sticking together; comprehensible, meaningful

• relevant, appropriate; fitting

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Congeal

• change from liquid to solid, thicken; make inflexible, rigid

• offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness & resentment

• habitually silent or quiet, inclined to tale very little

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Emulate

• a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

• so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

• imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Encomium

• retain ideas; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

• a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

• hackneyed, trite, commondplace

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Eschew

• to avoid, shun, keep away from

• relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

• so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E