Vocabulary Set Two

Activist

• to be involved or connected with someone

• to separate or set apart from others

• a person who organizes others to bring about political or social change

• to lose drive or strength

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Associate

• to be involved or connected with someone or something

• dull or drab

• to brag about your success or another person's failure

• to be distracted by thoughts of something

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Controversy

• when those in power treat one group of people cruelly or unfairly

• unplanned; coming from a natural impulse and not thought-out in advance

• to be overwhelmed by a feeling of unhappiness

• a long-lasting, public disagreement

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Oppression

• unplanned; coming from a natural impulse and not thought-out in adance

• to separate or set apart from others

• dull or drab

• when those in power treat one group of people cruelly and unfairly

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Segregate

• a person who organizes others to bring about political or social change

• to separate or set apart from others

• to brag about your success or another person's failure

• to take something before it reaches its destination

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Spontaneous

• to be overwhelmed by a feeling of great happiness or power

• Unplanned; coming from natural impulse and not thought-out in advance

• to be distracted by thoughts of something

• to lose drive or strength

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Dreary

• a long-lasting, public disagreement

• to come together

• dull or drab

• to take something before it reaches its destination

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Falter

• to lose drive or strength

• to brag about your success or another person's failure

• to be involved or connected with someone or something

• when those in power treat one group of people cruelly or unfairly

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Gloat

• to separate or set apart from others

• a long-lasting, public disagreement

• to brag about your success or another person's failure

• to be overwhelmed by a feeling of great happiness or power

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Intoxicate

• to take something before it reaches its destination

• to be overwhelmed by a feeling of great happiness or power

• to be involved or connected with someone or something

• dull or drab

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A