Vocabulary Week One

Asperity

• sharpness or harshness of manner

• a person or thing that destroys or causes harm

• a person who often makes attempts to be funny; a clown; a fool

• Mournful or full of sorrow; causing grief

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Bane

• Roughness of surface; unevenness

• A group or system in which positions of power are ranked, usually from lowest to highest

• A person or thing that destroys or causes harm

• Behaving in a wild and unruly manner

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Buffoon

• Mournful or full of sorrow; causing grief

• o attack by indirect, secret, or underhanded means

• An undeveloped or beginning stage

• a person who often makes attempts to be funny; a clown; a fool

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Doleful

• Excessively bright and flashy; tastelessly glaring

• A person whose attention is focused on others and on what is going on around her or him, rather than on her or his own feelings

• mournful or full of sorrow

• To fill completely with a feeling or idea; to inspire

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Extrovert

• a person who's attention is focused on other rather than themselves

• excessively bright and flashy

• a group or system in which positions of power are ranked

• to fill completely with a feeling or idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Garish

• Excessively bright or flashy

• to stir up or urge on, or provoke

• a basic principle or skill

• not stopping or slowing down

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Hierarchy

• to stir up or urge upon

• a person who's attention is focused on others rather than themselves

• a group or system in which positions of power are ranked

• to fill completely with a feeling or idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Imbue

• not stopping or slowing down

• to weaken or ruin by degrees

• to fill completely with a feeling or idea

• a basic skill or principle

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Instigate

• to stir up or urge on; to provoke

• the list of pieces an actor, musicians , etc is ready to preform

• behaving in a wild and unruly manner

• a strong attraction or leaning

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Penchant

• mournful or sorrow

• a person of thing that destroys or causes harm

• A strong attraction or leaning

• to weaken to ruin by degrees

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F