Advanced English 4 "A" Words

to cancel, destroy, revoke, or void

• Acumen

• Aphorism

• Abrogate

• Allegory

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

sharp, biting, or acid in temper, expression, or tone

• Acrimony

• Acerbic

• Ameliorate

• Aphorism

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

bitter, harsh, or biting sharpness

• Acrimony

• Abrogate

• Avarice

• Arcane

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)

• Adumbrate

• Acumen

• Abrogate

• Apocryphal

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

to sketch, outline in a shadowy way

• Ameliorate

• Avarice

• Adumbrate

• Allegory

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to make or grow better

• Acerbic

• Acrimony

• Arcane

• Ameliorate

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CCSS.L.3.2F

a tensely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage

• Allegory

• Adumbrate

• Aphorism

• Avarice

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

of doubtful authority or authenticity

• Acumen

• Apocryphal

• Acerbic

• Allegory

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form

• Allegory

• Acrimony

• Ameliorate

• Abrogate

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

understood by only a few

• Arcane

• Adumbrate

• Acrimony

• Abrogate

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E