Civil Peace - Concept Vocabulary and Word Study

amenable

• deep-fried balls of ground beans

• dishonest persuasion; bribery

• feeling or showing aversion, hesitation, or unwillingness

• agreeable

• adequate in courtesy and politeness; mannerly

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

blessings

• too great to count or measure

• unexpected good fortune

• act of giving up

• a prayer that harm will come to someone

• things that benefit or bring happiness

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

inestimable

• things that benefit or bring happiness

• unexpected good fortune

• having no usefulness; worthless

• agreeable

• too great to count or measure

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

influence

• dishonest persuasion; bribery

• act of giving up

• adequate in courtesy and politeness; mannerly

• devoid of strength or resources

• an acute, highly contagious, respiratory disease

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

surrender

• large glass or earthenware bottle with a wicker cover

• to exert force in opposition

• act of giving up

• to take or pick up stealthily

• to refrain from granting, giving, or allowing; withhold

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

windfall

• an imaginary wrong, evil, or opponent

• a source of harm or misfortune

• a mill or machine operated by the wind usually acting on oblique vanes or sails that radiate from a horizontal shaft

• things that benefit or bring happiness

• unexpected good fortune

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Identify the compound noun or compound nouns in the following sentence. (You must choose all that are right.)

It was stifling with only a box fan to cool the living room.

• stifling

• box fan

• living room

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

Identify the compound noun or compound nouns in the following sentence. (You must choose all that are right.)

Horace survived for two weeks in a lifeboat, subsisting on packaged rations and filtered water

• two weeks

• lifeboat

• packaged rations

• filtered water

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

Identify the compound noun or compound nouns in the following sentence. (You must choose all that are right.)

John jumped into the frigid swimming pool but only stayed in for a half-hour.

• jumped into

• frigid

• swimming pool

• half-hour

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

Identify the compound noun or compound nouns in the following sentence. (You must choose all that are right.)

Diana crumpled the worksheet and threw it away, asking for another copy to take for homework.

• worksheet

• another

• to take

• homework

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1