High School Vocabulary Building

Let's review some of our vocabulary

Match the following

• an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.

• pacifist

• a person who is not engaged in fighting during a war

• non-combatant

• a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable.

• emotive

• compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces

• armistice

• arousing or able to arouse intense feeling

• conscription

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Credible (adjective)

able to be ​ (a)   , ​ (b)  

• believed
• convincing

credible (adjective)

creh- dii- bull

offering reasonable grounds for being ​ (a)   or ​ (b)  

• believed
• trusted

Answer explanation

Credible evidence is evidence that's likely to be believed. A credible plan is one that might actually work, and a credible excuse is one your parents might actually believe. And just as credible means "believable", the noun credibility means "believability".

Since cred is short for credibility, "street cred" is the kind of credibility among tough young people that you can only get by proving yourself on the streets.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

pacify (verb)

pa- si- fyy

​ (a)   ​ suggests a soothing or ​ (b)   .

• pacify
• calming

Answer explanation

Pacify is the oldest of a set of soothing words that floated into English on the buoy of Latin pac- or pax, meaning “peace.” It arrived in the 15th century, and was followed by pacifier and pacific in the subsequent century. These words and other pac-/pax relations have proven useful. While 16th century pacifiers soothed and subdued in general ways, by the turn of the 20th century pacifier was being used with a new meaning referring specifically to a device for a baby to suck on. Also dating to around the turn of the 20th century are pacifist and pacifism. Pay also comes ultimately from this root (by way of Latin pacare, meaning “to pacify”), as does the gentlest of this lexical family, the word peace itself.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Let's review...match the synonyms and antonyms to their word

• quell the anger, agitation, or excitement of.

• monkey noodle

• a banned item at CHS

• incite

• encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behavior).

• pacify

• able to be believed; convincing.

• credible

• uncertain or unlikely.

• doubtful

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

Match the following words to their image

• infuriate

• 
• doubtful

• 
• credible

• 
• pacify

• 
• incite

• 

Tags

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

Reorder the following words

• trustworthy

• dependable

• credible

• honest

• reliable

Tags

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B