Unit Ten Vocabulary Review (Adv)

What does the word "adept" mean?

• bare, dreary, dismal

• thoroughly skilled

• to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend

• to blame or scold

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does the word "aspire" mean?

• to make use of, develop; to make improper use of for personal profit

• incorrect, containing mistakes

• to free from slavery; to release or liberate

• to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does the word "bleak" mean?

• untidy in dress,

  personal habits,

  etc.; careless,

  sloppy

• inclined to doubt;

  slow to accept

  something as true

• bare, dreary, dismal

• mud; wet, swampy

  ground; a tough

  situation

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What does the word "chide" mean?

• drooping; without

  energy, sluggish

• to blame or scold

• forward; undesirably

  prominent; thrust out

• an introduction to a

  speech or piece of

  writing

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does the word "despicable" mean?

• small, smaller than

  most others of the

  same type

• worthy of scorn,

  contemptible

• incorrect, containing

  mistakes

• made or delivered on

  the spur of the

  moment

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What does the word "diminutive" mean?

• small, smaller than

  most others of the

  same type

• to make imperfect,

  damage, harm

• not able to be

  defeated, unbeatable

• drooping; without

  energy, sluggish

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

What does the word "emancipate" mean?

• forward; undesirably

  prominent; thrust out

• mud; wet, swampy

  ground; a tough

  situation

• to free from slavery;

  to release or

  liberate

• rough, irregular;

  severe, stern;

  strong; stormy

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What does the word "erroneous" mean?

• incorrect, containing

  mistakes

• untidy in dress,

  personal habits,

  etc.; careless,

  sloppy

• inclined to doubt;

  slow to accept

  something as true

• rough, irregular;

  severe, stern;

  strong; stormy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What does the word "exploit" mean?

• to make use of,

  develop; to make

  improper use of for

  personal profit

• to cause to become;

  to perform; to

  deliver officially;

  to process, extract

• inclined to doubt;

  slow to accept

  something as true

• drooping; without

  energy, sluggish

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does the word "extemporaneous" mean?

• made or delivered on

  the spur of the

  moment

• untidy in dress,

  personal habits,

  etc.; careless,

  sloppy

• forward; undesirably

  prominent; thrust out

• not able to be

  defeated, unbeatable

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E