Deanna Smith Vocabulary

to speed up, cause to move faster, to bring about more quickly

• accelerate

• parch

• gruesome

• melancholy

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

one who looks on or observes, a person present but not taking part

• bystander

• entice

• graphic

• downtrodden

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to go through an area in order to procure votes, sales, or opinions

• canvass

• erode

• casual

• ordeal

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

happening by chance or on an irregular basis

• casual

• regal

• vital

• persist

treated unfairly or cruelly, oppressed

• downtrodden

• Mrs. Smith

• melancholy

• accelerate

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

to attract, tempt

• entice

• ratify

• puny

• vital

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

to wear away gradually, eat away

• erode

• flounder

• carp

• trout

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way

• flounder

• Rick's place on Friday

• downtrodden

• accelerate

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

lifelike, vivid; relating to the pictorial ads

• gruesome

• graphic

• grand

• grotesque

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

horrible, revolting, ghastly

• gruesome

• ordeal

• casual

• accelerate

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4