Barron's Week 5 Vocabulary

Some teachers on campus do not _____ with students that lunch should last longer.

• concur

• ethics

• clandestine

• inane

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

If a student is caught with their phone in class, the principal may admonish the teacher.

What does the word admonish most closey mean?

• force, use compulsion

• outrageous, bad

• warn, scold

• add on, improve

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

Last year, Mrs. Grant had her chargers stolen. However, she never found the ______.

• duress

• admonish

• flagrant

• culprit

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

The rampant disease spread around campus and caused an epidemic.
What does the word rampant mean?

• outrageous, bad

• widespread, throughout

• rancid, gross

• inappropriate, salacious

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The bank teller made an _______ mistake that led to her losing her job.

• distraught

• acrimonious

• paucity

• egregious

After getting caught, the crook feigned guilt and remorse so that others may look over his duplicity.
What does the word duplicity mean?

• scandal

• cunning and trickery

• fowl language

• scarcity

Which idiom means to "take the conceit out of a braggart"?

• stock-in-trade

• take down a peg

• lionize a person

• pass the buck

Two students tried to plan a ________ meeting but were unexpectedly caught by the janitors. Awkward!

• rampant

• inane

• clandestine

• concur

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

Under ______ from his coach, the boy decided to quit the team rather than be kicked off.

• admonish

• duress

• clandestine

• culprit

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

Some days the amount of vocabulary review we do feels inexorable, but it does help us learn the words.
What does the word inexorable most closely mean?

• compulsion, forse

• inflexible, unrelenting

• outrageous, glaringly bad

• guilty

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4