Advancing Vocabulary Skills

obvious and don’t need thinking

• No-brainer

• paltry

• repent

• spur

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

very small and superficial

• insatiable

• tedious

• sizeable

• paltry

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

boring

• remarkable

• tedious

• riveting

• paramount

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

someone who refuses aggressively others’ opinions

• rival

• quaint

• bigot

• compliment

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

too great and cannot be satisfied

• dreadful

• insatiable

• wobbly

• baffling

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

a dead body, especially for a person

• corpse

• coup d'état

• cop

• cap

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

to express in words

• spur

• hasten

• articulate

• repent

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

to encourage to do something

• depart

• spur

• devise

• track

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

to use your intellect and imagination to invent, plan or design something

• alter

• trigger

• cope

• devise

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

to regret

• dismiss

• repent

• rush

• resemble

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E