vocab

• Approach and address (someone) boldly or aggressively 

• Accost

• Gambit

• Reconnaissance

• Coherent

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

• excessively interested in acquiring money or material things.

• • Acquisitive 

• Tenable

• Brackish

• Invidious

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

• a whole formed by combining several (typically disparate) elements.

• • Aggregate 

• Encomium

• Insatiable

• Substantiate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

• having or showing a keen interest in or enthusiasm for something.

• Avid

• Coherent

• Eschew

• Gambit

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

• so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring

• • Banal.

• Devious

• Substantiate

• Largesse

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

• argue or elaborate (a subject) in excessive detail.

• • Belabor 

• Emulate

• Invidious

• Tenable

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

• (of water) slightly salty, as is the mixture of river water and seawater in estuaries. 

• Brackish

• Intransigent

• Carping

• Encomium

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

• continually complaining or finding fault about trivial matters; difficult to please.

• Carping

• Insatiable

• Invidious

• 
  

  Reconnaissance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

• (of an argument, theory, or policy) logical and consistent.

• • Coherent 

• Accost

• Banal

• Congeal

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

• solidify or coagulate, especially by cooling.

• Congeal

• Aggregate

• Emulate

• Tenable

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E