Vocabulary 8th Grade Week 2

lean and haggard, especially because of hunger, age, or suffering

• impudent

• gaunt

• ruddy

• guaudy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

abnormally thin and weak, especially due to illness or lack of food

• emaciated

• desolate

• dainty

• threadbare

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

knobbly, rough, and twisted, especially with age

• gaunt

• dainty

• gnarled

• squalor

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

having a healthy red color; reddish

• ruddy

• gaunt

• squalor

• bleak

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

thin and tattered with age; worn out

• threadbare

• gaunt

• emaciated

• desolate

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

delicately small and pretty; refined or fastidious

• ruddy

• dainty

• bleak

• gnarled

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

extravagantly bright or showy, typically in bad taste

• bleak

• gnarled

• gaudy

• emaciated

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

the state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty

• gnarled

• threadbare

• ruddy

• squalor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements; cold and miserable

• ruddy

• emaciated

• bleak

• threadbare

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

deserted of people and in a state of bleak emptiness

• desolate

• ruddy

• gaunt

• dainty

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4