Vocab Set 4.2

make (guilt or an offense) seem less serious or more forgivable. ^__________

• Extenuating

• Substantiating

• Condescending

• Ameliorating

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The ability to make quick, accurate, and intelligent decisions or judgments, especially in a particular domain.

• Aversion

• Acquiesce

• Acumen

• Multiplicity

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

Completely or directly opposed to something ________

• diametrically

• didactic

• deference

• elude

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

I would be ________ opposed to lengthening the school day, since I think it’s too long already.

• diametrically

• earnestly

• garishly

• prohibitively

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

not feeling or showing emotion ________

• nefarious

• sanctimonious

• salient

• impassive

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive. ________

• aspersions

• construing

• sanctimonious

• intuitive

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The teacher’s perspective nature allowed him to ________ that there was something wrong with his student.

• Construe

• Prognosticate

• Intuit

• Acumen

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

Utterly bewilder or perplex ________

• mystified

• perseverated

• confounded

• extraneous

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Optimistic or hopeful, especially in a difficult or challenging situation

• prattle

• sanguine

• amorphous

• facetious

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The toddler incessantly ________ about his day, exhausting his friends and parents.

• prattled

• confounded

• unsullied

• fettered

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4