Wordly Wise 3000 Level 8, Lesson 10

Match the following

• a form of language spoken in a region

• commemorate

• most miserable

• abject

• to serve as a memorial to

• atrocity

• to defend

• advocate

• an act of great cruelty

• dialect

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Match the following

• to make greater

• advocate

• One who argues for or defends a person

• dire

• Having terrible consequences

• elite

• A group that enjoys superior status

• atrocious

• Very brutal, wicked, or cold

• enhance

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Match the following

• to lose hope, strength, or vitality

• flagrant

• clearly offensive or bad

• elite

• appallingly bad; outrageous

• languish

• considered superior to others

• atrocious

• to soften or tone down the sound

• mute

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Match the following

• to level to the ground

• mute

• a state of confusion or agitation

• reprisal

• not able to speak

• turmoil

• to bring about or inflict

• wreak

• a retaliation for an injury

• raze

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

The dog lived in ​ (a)   conditions until the neighbor children began to care for her.

• abject
• advocate
• enhance
• turmoil

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

A Spanish-speaking person from Madrid might not completely understand a ​ (a)   spoken in Cuba.

• dialect
• advocate
• elite
• mute

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

We ​ (a)   on the porch as the rain soaked the picnic blanket and all the food we had laid out.

• languished
• commemorated
• enhanced
• razed

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The tornado ​ (a)   destruction along the path it followed through the center of town.

• wreaked
• abjected
• enhanced
• languished

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Which building has been razed?

• 
• 
• 

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Label the area in which the Cajun dialect of English is spoken.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7