Vocabulary Unit 4 Set 1

Having a background of wealth and luxury; having a golden coating, which often hides rust or disrepair.

• Gilded

• Tinged

• Emblazoned

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Attractive in appearance, especially in an old fashioned way; resembling a painted scene.

• Picturesque

• Semblance

• Portraiture

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Excessively talkative, especially about trivial matters.

• Taciturn

• Garrulous

• Reticent

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Long, slow, or dull; tiresome and monotonous.

• Tedious

• Lachrymose

• Insipid

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Seemingly endless; continuing for so long as to be boring.

• Copious

• Impertinent

• Interminable

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

To delay activity with idle stops and pauses; to stand in a public place without obvious reason.

• Mollify

• Foray

• Loiter

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect.

• Abdication

• Squalor

• Endemic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Pleasing because of being unusual or old-fashioned.

• Quaint

• Marginalia

• Prosaic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Slow to act or likely to cause delay.

• Careen

• Cloying

• Dilatory

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Relating to the idea of time; relating to worldly concepts as opposed to spiritual/ethereal ones.

• Temporal

• Empyrean

• Supernal

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6