Vocabulary 13 seniors with a twist

Difficult to understand

• Cognizant

• Efficacy

• Abstruse

• Opprobrium

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

(n) A personally offensive act or word, a deliberate act or display of disrespect; (v) To offend openly by disrespect or insolence

• Affront

• Captious

• Putative

• Incongruous

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

A false or made up story or rumor

• Ghoulish

• Desiccated

• Cynosure

• Canard

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Always ready to find fault or criticize

• Abstruse

• Captious

• Ethereal

• Mesmerize

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Taking notice or being aware

• Deign

• Facade

• Machination

• Cognizant

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

Match the following

• Decorous

• The center of attraction or interest

• Cynosure

• Appropriate manners, characteristics or behaviors for a situation.

• Desiccated

• Dehydrated or completely dried out.

• Contrite

• To think appropriate or worthy of one's dignity

• Diegn

• Feeling or showing guilt or regret for sins or wrongs

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Match these

• Ghoulish

• Showing fascination with death and decay or morbid

• Ethereal

• The power to produce the desired effect or result.

• Efficacy

• To produce or bring into existence

• Engender

• An artificial or deceptive front of a building or an appearance

• Facade

• Light or airy or heavenly

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Match the following

• Mesmerize

• A crafty scheme or plot to bring about a sinister or evil end

• Opprobrium

• Not harmonious or compatible in nature

• Incongruous

• To hypnotize or fascinate

• Putative

• Disgrace or reproach caused by shameful behavior

• Machination

• Commonly regarded as such or accepted as true

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C