SAT Vocabulary L5

askance

• having two possible meanings; able to be understood in two different ways

• lacking in strength, especially due to old age or illness

• with a sideways glance, as with distrust

• o calm or pacify

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

the scientific study of plants

• biology

• botany

• plantology

• waif

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

obsolete

• a desire to atone for wrongdoing

• no longer used or useful

• to come together, to meet

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

penitence

• he ability to anticipate future happenings or to plan for the future

• a desire to atone for wrongdoing

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

mollify

• o hold in a rapt state; to have overpowering influence

• no longer used or useful

• to calm or pacify

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

tortuous

• having many twists and turns; intricate and difficult to follow

• to work against a project or purpose; to subvert or sabotage

• to talk harshly or critically of, particularly to speak false criticisms

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

a person, especially a child, with no home or prospects

• waif

• pyromania

• absence

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

lacking in liveliness and flavor; dull

• mollify

• pommel

• vapid

• penitence

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

to work against a project or purpose; to subvert or sabotage

• vapid

• undermine

• mollify

• obsolete

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

professing beliefs or acting in opposition to one's true beliefs or actions; insincerity

• hypocrisy

• regress

• inhospitable

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C