Vocabulary Quiz - 8th IXL Essential List 4

Feign

• Unpleasantly cold and damp

• A large sea wave

• Make believe with the intent to deceive

• Diminish gradually

• Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Headlong

• Suggested though not directly expressed

• With the upper or anterior part of the body foremost

• A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• Leave slowly and hesitantly

• Distant, cold, or detached in manner

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Taper

• The outward flow of the tide

• An animal's manner of moving

• A large sea wave

• Without forethought

• Diminish gradually

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Bleak

• Perceptible by the senses, especially the sense of touch

• Diminish gradually

• Unpleasantly cold and damp

• Make believe with the intent to deceive

• A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Impulsive

• Suggested though not directly expressed

• Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

• A large sea wave

• Distant, cold, or detached in manner

• Without forethought

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Gaunt

• Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

• Unpleasantly cold and damp

• Perceptible by the senses, especially the sense of touch

• A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• Diminish gradually

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Aloof

• Without forethought

• A large sea wave

• An animal's manner of moving

• The outward flow of the tide

• Distant, cold, or detached in manner

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Billow

• Perceptible by the senses, especially the sense of touch

• A large sea wave

• Make believe with the intent to deceive

• Diminish gradually

• A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Ebb

• The outward flow of the tide

• Make believe with the intent to deceive

• Diminish gradually

• Perceptible by the senses, especially the sense of touch

• A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Wane

• A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• An animal's manner of moving

• Diminish gradually

• The outward flow of the tide

• Without forethought

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C