SAT Vocabulary Lesson and Practice: Lesson 5

What word means:

the fact of being gone or not present

• Mollify

• Enthrall

• Askance

• Absence

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What word means:

1. a person, especially a child, with no home or prospects

• penitence

• tortuous

• waif

• converge

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

What word means:

1.  lacking in liveliness and flavor; dull

• Pommel

• Vapid

• Botany

• Diffidence

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 word means:

having two possible meanings; able to be understood in two different

• Ambiguous

• Decrepit

• Obsolete

• Regress

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What word means:

1. with a sideways glance, as with distrust

• Pommel

• Foresight

• Clumsy

• Askance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What word means:

1.  to work against a project or purpose; to subvert or sabotage

• Absence

• Malign

• Undermine

• Vapid

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What word means:

having many twist and turns; intricate and difficult to follow

• Mollify

• Tortuous

• Decrepit

• Inhospitable

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

What word means:

1.  the scientific study of plants

• Obsolete

• Sediment

• Botany

• Hypocrisy

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 word means:

1.  moving awkwardly, especially causing collisions, accidents, or mishaps.

• Waif

• Regress

• Pommel

• Clumsy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What word means:

1. occurring afterward

• Subsequent

• Penitence

• Foresight

• Absence

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A