PSAT Vocab Set #3 (Words)

Anachronistic

• Out of the context of time, out of date

• Something out of place, a strangeness

• Peak

• Sanctuary, place of safety

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Pragmatic

• Practical

• Thinking yourself better than others

• Causes a fuss, inflammatory, likely to get people riled up

• Hermit, withdrawn

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Asylum

• Sanctuary, place of safety

• Very large, spacious

• Surrender

• To back up a claim

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Abdicate

• Give up a position

• To really hate

• Out of the context of time, out of date

• Something out of place, a strangeness

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Capitulate

• Harmful

• To back up a claim

• Surrender

• Very large, spacious

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Reconciliation

• Being new, being redone

• The act of bringing people together or making an agreement

• Being new, being redone

• Wisdom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Intuitive

• Knowing something by instinct

• One who represents an interest group to government officials

• Wealthy

• Speaker

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Abhar

• Out of the context of time, out of date

• Something out of place, a strangeness

• Peak

• To really hate

Pretentious

• The act of bringing people together or making an agreement

• Hermit, withdrawn

• Causes a fuss, inflammatory, likely to get people riled up

• Thinking yourself better than others

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Lobbyist

• Wealthy

• Speaker

• Knowing something by instinct

• One who represents an interest group to government officials

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6