Week 3 English 1 vocab

What does Ameliorate Mean?

• to improve, to make better, to correct a flaw or shortcoming

• to urge strongly, advise earnestly

• to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others (sometimes used in a critical or derogatory sense)

• belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Aplomb

• one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder

• saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense; verb--to let saliva flow from the mouth; to utter nonsense or childish twaddle; to waste or fritter away foolishly

• poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity

• secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means; mysterious, magical, uncanny; verb--to hide, to cover up; to eclipse; noun--matters involving the supernatural

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Bombastic

• secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means; mysterious, magical, uncanny; verb--to hide, to cover up; to eclipse; noun--matters involving the supernatural

• pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas

• to think or believe without certain supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess; noun--likely idea that lacks definite proof

• to fall as moisture; to bring about suddenly;l to hurl down from a great height; to give distinct form to; adjective--characterized by excessive haste; noun--moisture; the product of an action or process

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Callow

• without experience; immature, not fully developed; lacking sophistication and poise; without feathers

• secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means; mysterious, magical, uncanny; verb--to hide, to cover up; to eclipse; noun--matters involving the supernatural

• to violate, to trespass, go beyond recognized bounds

• to fall as moisture; to bring about suddenly to hurl down from a great height; to give distinct form to; adjective--characterized by excessive haste; noun--moisture; the product of an action or process

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

-saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense; verb--to let saliva flow from the mouth; to utter nonsense or childish twaddle; to waste or fritter away foolishly

• Inveigh

• Drivel

• Interloper

• Stringent

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

1. a summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality

• Ex officio

• Occult

• Permeate

• Epitome

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

1. to urge strongly, advise earnestly

• Stringent

• Precipitate

• Exhort

• Lassitude

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Ex officio

• secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means; mysterious, magical, uncanny; verb--to hide, to cover up; to eclipse; noun--matters involving the supernatural

• 1. a period of one thousand years; a period of great joy

• to think or believe without certain supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess; noun--likely idea that lacks definite proof

• by virtue of holding a certain office

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Infringe

• to violate, to trespass, go beyond recognized bounds

• to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval

• one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder

• 1. -to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others (sometimes used in a critical or derogatory sense)

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

Ingratiate

• saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense; verb--to let saliva flow from the mouth; to utter nonsense or childish twaddle; to waste or fritter away foolishly

• 1. pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas

• to urge strongly, advise earnestly

• to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others (sometimes used in a critical or derogatory sense)

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6