Building an Enriched Vocabulary

kudos

• the prestige or acclaim that results from some noteworthy achievement or position

• something left to a person in a will

• a debt or obligation

• legal action

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

lackadaisical

• sorely lacing in spirit, energy, or purpose

• profitable

• luxuriant, plentiful; luxurious, opulent

• gigantic

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

legacy

• something left to a person in a will; something handed down from the past

• a debt or obligation, especially of a financial nature

• legal action; a lawsuit

• an unconscious and usually ludicrous misuse of a word

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

liability

• a debt or obligation, especially of a financial nature

• legal action; a lawsuit

• lacking in spirit, energy, or purpose

• to be publicly slandered

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

libel - verb

• to slander publicly

• to sneak; to lie hidden or in wait

• to require

• to cause harm or suffering

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

litagation

• legal action; a lawsuit

• acclaim that results

• luxuriant, plentiful; luxurious, opulent

• an unconscious and usually ludicrous misuse of word

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

lucid

• mentally competent

• profitable

• luxuriant, plentiful

• gigantic

lucrative

• profitable

• lacking in spirit, energy, or purpose

• gigantic

• required, obligatory

lurk

• to sneak, to lie hidden or in wait

• to slander publicly

• to take legal action

• to hand something down from the past

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

lush

• luxuriant, plentiful; luxurious, opulent

• required; obligatory

• profitable

• clear and intelligible

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C