Gothic Vocabulary

sharp or severe in effect; sudden

• acute
• sagacity
• vexed
• stifled

ability to understand situations and make good decisions

• foresight
• concealment
• sufficient
• sagacity

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a black or dark residue

• fancy
• acute
• pitch
• chamber

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Dissimulation would make the most sense in which sentence?

• With what dissimulation she shows in her work! She is an example for all in the office.
• He was full of dissimulation after his favorite team lost the big game.
• He was the opposite of good; he could have taught a course on lying, deceit and dissimulation.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

When would Griffin be more likely to have stifled a yawn?

• while he is getting ready for bed
• while he is competing in a public debate

Which word is a synonym for the word derision? 

• wisdom
• enclose
• obvious
• disrespect

"He had directed, in great part, moveable embellishments of the seven chambers, upon occasion of this great fete."

• affair
• party
• speech
• day

"There was a sharp cry- and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero." 

• violent
• lying flat
• ill 
• frightened

Cuckolded means

• to refrain from exacting, as a payment or service
• to make the husband of an unfaithful wife
• reckless boldness; rashness.
• chemical compound used to get rid of smells

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Cabal means

• members of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council
• a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority
• a picturesque grouping of persons or objects; a striking scene
• pale; faint or deficient in color; wan

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4