Vocabulary workshop unit 10

Definition of beneficiary

• The power to forbid or prevent

• Falling apart or patch poorly, make a mess of, a hopelessly bungled job

• One who benefits from something; a person who is left money or other property in a will or the like

• Not successful, failing to have any results; useless; unimportant, frivolous

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Definition of botch

• Widely known because of bad conduct

• To repair or patch poorly; make mess of; a hopelessly bungled job

• To allow too many privileges, be too generous and easygoing toward

• The power to forbid or prevent; to prohibit, reject

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Define dilapidated

• To avoid or get out of doing work, neglect a duty; to sneak, slink

• Falling apart or ruined, run-down

• Not successful, failing to have any result; useless; unimportant, frivolous

• Widely known because of bad conduct

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Define futile

• Not successful, failing to have any result; useless;unimportant, frivolous

• The power to forbid or prevent; to prohibit, reject

• Offering friendly or generous treatment to guests; open to anything new or strange

• Falling apart or ruined, run-down

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Define hospitable

• The home or den of a wild animal; any hideout

• To allow too many privileges, be too generous and easygoing toward

• Offering friendly or generous treatment to guests; open to anything new or strange

• The power to forbid or prevent; to prohibit, reject

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Define lair

• The home or den of a wild animal; any hideout

• To avoid or get out of doing work, neglect a duty; to sneak, slink

• The power to forbid or prevent; to prohibit, reject

• The state of being easily frightened

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Define notorious

• To allow too many privileges, be too generous and easygoing toward

• The power to forbid or prevent; to prohibit, reject

• Very tiring, calling for an extreme effort

• Widely known because of bad conduct

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Define pamper

• To allow too many privileges, be too generous and easygoing toward

• An organism that lives in or on another organism; one who lives off another person

• The power to forbid or prevent; to prohibit, reject

• To repair or patch poorly; make a mess of; a hopelessly bungles job

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Define shirk

• The power to forbid or prevent; to prohibit, reject

• Overly generous, extravagant; abundant; to spend or give freely or without limit

• To avoid or get out of doing work, neglect a duty; to sneak, slink

• One who benefits from something; a person who is left money or other property in a will or the like

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Define veto

• The power to forbid or prevent; to prohibit, reject

• Offering friendly or generous treatment to guests; open to anything new or strange

• A place filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings; broad or far-fetched humor; a ridiculous sham

• In an unhealthy mental state, extremely gloomy; caused by or related to disease, unwholesome

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6