Vocabulary 20-23

cynical

• believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest

• extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque

• a group of islands

• unauthorized by or inconsistent with the constitution

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

melodramatic

• broken or separated into distinct parts

• being exaggerated, sensationalized, or overemotional

• the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others

• to fall, pour, or rush in or as if in a cascade

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

dissent

• so great as to cause one to stagger

• the act or process or emancipating

• the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held

• a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E

idyllic

• showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks; showing an impudent lack of respect

• the act of killing a number of usually helpless /unresisting beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty

• convey pollen to or deposit pollen on and so allow fertilization

• extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

staggering

• extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque

• so great as to cause one to stagger

• the act or process of emancipating

• broken or separated into distinct parts

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

cascading

• convey pollen to or deposit pollen on and so allow fertilization

• being exaggerated, sensationalized, or overemotional

• to fall, pour, or rush in or as if in a cascade

• the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

audacious

• the act of killing a number of usually helpless / unresisting beings under circumstances of atrocity / cruelty

• a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together

• the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held

• showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks; showing an impudent lack of respect

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

archipelago

• a group of islands

• the act or process of emancipating

• the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem

• believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

massacre

• the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held

• a group of islands

• the act of killing a number of usually helpless / unresisting beings under circumstances of atrocity / cruelty

• the variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

emancipation

• convey pollen to or deposit pollen on and so allow fertilization

• extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque

• showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks; showing an impudent lack of respect

• the act or process of emancipating

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.3.2E