Senior Vocabulary 4 Definitions

To collect bit by bit

• Flotsam

• Recumbent

• Glean

• Bastion

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

1. (n) a plant covered with stinging hairs (v) To irritate, annoy, or provoke severly

• Nettle

• Disarray

• Mordant

• Pecuniary

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

(n) A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution (v) To waste away or deteriorate

• Consummate

• Glean

• Incumbent

• Atrophy

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage

• Concord

• Jocular

• Stratagem

• Atrophy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

(v)To bring to completion (adj) Being of the highest degree, perfect or supreme

• Incarcerate

• Consummate

• Grouse

• Nettle

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Laughable

• Pusillanimous

• Stratagem

• Frenetic

• Ludicrous

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A group that defends a principle; a defensive place

• Ludicrous

• Grouse

• Bastion

• Exigency

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

Lying down, especially in a position of comfort or rest; reclining

• Disarray

• Glean

• Recumbent

• Incumbent

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.6

(n) a state of disorder or confusion (v) To throw into confusion or disorder

• Mordant

• Disarray

• Stratagem

• Pecuniary

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

(n) A person who holds an office at the current time; (adj) Imposed as an obligation or duty, obligatory

• Concord

• Incumbent

• Consummate

• Flotsam

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5