Vocabulary list 1 - TGTH

ardent means:

• sage

• fervent

• tragic

• shrewd

Answer explanation

Ardent is most often used to modify words like supporter, fan, advocate, admirer, and defender — but also opponent. Although you can either ardently support or oppose something, "support" appears more often in common usage. The word literally means "burning" or "glowing" — it's from the Latin verb ardere, "to burn." In poetic use, the word is sometimes used to mean "glowing," as Alexander Pope meant it in his 1718 translation of Homer's Iliad: "From rank to rank she darts her ardent eyes."

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

• “My body became highly impregnated with the contagion. My eyes were yellow, and sometimes a yellowness was perceptible in my face,” he noted.

  An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

• Perceptible means:

• shabby

• braid

• perceivable

• chignon

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

If Aunt Tilly offers to knit you a sweater, you might politely demur, being reluctant to accept. When she describes the bunnies she plans for the sweater, you would want to strongly demur, explaining that you are moving to Texas next week and will no longer need sweaters.

Demur means:

• reserved

• opose

• weaken

• remostrate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

• But the little rock was inert and odorless, without a hint or memory of life.

  Gathering Blue

• A ANTONYM for inert is:

• active

• unable to move

• sluggish

• silent

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

“the leaves rustled tremulously in the wind”

Tremulously means:

• plaintively

• sundry

• tersly

• shaking

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

• She spoke tersely, as if wishing to put the topic behind us as quickly as possible.

  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

• A synonym for tersely is:

• plaintively

• telegraphically

• veritable

• quary

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

• A few of the books had been shaken roughly enough to part company with their covers, and sundry pages littered the floor.

  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

An ANTONYM for sundry is:

• same

• various

• coloured

• miscellaneous

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

• I mentioned something to that effect while we were doing the dishes, and Dussel launched into a veritable tirade.

  The Diary of a Young Girl

• Veritable means:

• fake

• glorious

• terse

• real

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

• We were embarrassed by the earthy harmonies they sang, but since the visitors were awed we dared not laugh at the crude, high, plaintively animal sounds Jim Trueblood made as he led the quartet.

  Invisible Man

Plaintively is:

• joyful

• mournfully

• tersly

• eagerly

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

• I remonstrated with him and said that it was the tradition of the ANC to work with anyone who was against racial oppression.

  Long Walk to Freedom

To remonstrate means:

• to be pathetic

• to reproof

• to undersand

• to mollify

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C