Lit. for College and Career Unit 15 Vocab

What does the word "abstinence" mean?

• • The practice of voluntarily avoiding certain pleasures or substances, often for moral, religious, or health reasons

• • A person’s outward behavior, manner, or appearance

• • A feeling or force that restrains or prevents a person from acting freely or naturally

• • Abundant in quantity or number; large in amount or supply

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does the word "alight" mean?

• • Maintained or continued for an extended period without interruption

• • To assign to a lower rank or less important position; to demote

• • To descend and settle, as from the air

• • Strict, precise, and demanding, especially in terms of rules or conditions

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

What does the word "copious" mean?

• • Thinly scattered or distributed; not dense or abundant

• • Not essential; able to be replaced or done without

• • Abundant in quantity or number; large in amount or supply

• • Strict, precise, and demanding, especially in terms of rules or conditions

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What does the word "demeanor" mean?

• • The practice of voluntarily avoiding certain pleasures or substances, often for moral, religious, or health reasons

• • To descend and settle, as from the air

• • A feeling or force that restrains or prevents a person from acting freely or naturally

• • A person’s outward behavior, manner, or appearance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does the word "dispensable" mean?

• • Abundant in quantity or number; large in amount or supply

• • Maintained or continued for an extended period without interruption

• • Not essential; able to be replaced or done without

• • Thinly scattered or distributed; not dense or abundant

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What does the word "inhibition" mean?

• • A person’s outward behavior, manner, or appearance

• • The practice of voluntarily avoiding certain pleasures or substances, often for moral, religious, or health reasons

• • A feeling or force that restrains or prevents a person from acting freely or naturally

• • To descend and settle, as from the air

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does the word "relegated" mean?

• • To descend and settle, as from the air

• • To assign to a lower rank or less important position; to demote

• • Abundant in quantity or number; large in amount or supply

• • Not essential; able to be replaced or done without

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

What does the word "sparse" mean?

• • Maintained or continued for an extended period without interruption

• • Strict, precise, and demanding, especially in terms of rules or conditions

• • Thinly scattered or distributed; not dense or abundant

• • Abundant in quantity or number; large in amount or supply

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

What does the word "stringent" mean?

• • Not essential; able to be replaced or done without

• • Strict, precise, and demanding, especially in terms of rules or conditions

• • Abundant in quantity or number; large in amount or supply

• • To descend and settle, as from the air

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What does the word "sustained" mean?

• • Strict, precise, and demanding, especially in terms of rules or conditions

• • Maintained or continued for an extended period without interruption

• • Thinly scattered or distributed; not dense or abundant

• • Not essential; able to be replaced or done without

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4