Vocab Review +Horror

to cause bitterness and bad feeling

• cringe

• blunderbuss

• envenom

• heresy

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Define blight.

• Blight is a flowering plant.

• Blight is a type of animal
• Blight is a type of weather phenomenon
• Blight is a plant disease, especially one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

cryptic

• appease to pacify or calm (someone or something) to agree or allow something in order to avoid argument or disagreement to a state of peace or calm.

• To come about as a result of natural growth increase or advantage; to accumulate or add periodically.

• someone who defends or supports a cause on interest a person a group etc. to support or argue for a cause a policy an interest etc.

• to refuse abruptly to hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertakeing

• mysterious or obscure having a hidden or unclear meaning concealed

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

an object that is thought to have magic powers

The comedian's joke at a political rally calling Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" was ______________________________.

• bilk

• hasten

• renown

• credulous

• reprehensible

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the synonym for bilk?

• corrupt

• scam

• honesty

• help

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Carrie was late again to school for first period, so she offered her teacher ________ lie that she was robbed as she walked to the bus.

• aghast

• blatant

• fallow

• desist

• daunted

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Fill in the blank: The scared puppies ___________________ at the volunteer who tried to get to them.

• cowered

• hasten

• abasement

• epitaphed

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Humiliation; degradation

• Discreet

• Defer

• Cower

• Abasement

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which word means "to cancel out"?

• deplete

• nullify

• exorcise

• delete

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4