English 9 Semester Vocabulary Review

an adjective that describes something having to do with helping people and relieving suffering

• humanitarian

• compassionate

• empathetic

• adjacent

Organizing __________________ aid is an urgent task after a large disaster.

• precipitous

• humanitarian

• buoyant

• vigilant

to figure something out by examining related facts

• to allocate

• to decimate

• to deduce

• to defuse

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

If your test scores are high, you can _________________ that your final grade will be good.

• hypothesize

• predict

• guess

• deduce

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2B

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

an adjective that describes something that is wild and unpredictable

• tempestuous

• precipitous

• ironic

• catalytic

Natural disasters often feature ________________, unpredictable weather.

• buoyant

• tempestuous

• subsiding

• nominal

things that happen or are present one after another in order

• demographic

• exodus

• series

• constituency

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The tsunami created a _______________ of killer waves.

• entity

• infrastructure

• inverse

• series

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.2.4C

to utterly destroy; vanquish completely

• decimate

• deduce

• defuse

• diffuse

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The original Roman meaning of _________________ was to kill one in ten soldiers to encourage the rest to surrender.

• precipitous

• decimate

• tsunami

• catalyst

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E