MLK Vocabulary

elevated

• prosperity

• tribulations

• exalted

• yearning

• idly

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

strong desire; longing

• prosperity

• tribulations

• exalted

• yearning

• idly

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

great trouble or misery

• prosperity

• tribulations

• exalted

• yearning

• idly

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

good fortune; success

• prosperity

• tribulations

• exalted

• yearning

• idly

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

lazily; without taking action

• prosperity

• tribulations

• exalted

• yearning

• idly

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Which of the following synonyms could replace the bold word?

"I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

• comfortably

• lazily

• angrily

• sorrowfully

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

Which of the following synonyms could replace the bold word?

"One hundred years later, the [Black man] lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."

• emptiness

• poverty

• wealth

• entertainment

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

Which of the following synonyms could replace the bold word?

"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low..."

• lowered

• broken

• leveled

• raised

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

Which of the following synonyms could replace the bold word?

"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells."

• miseries

• excitement

• court cases

• debts

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

Which of the following synonyms could replace the bold word?

"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself..."

• crying

• longing

• anger

• joy

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5