Vocabulary

What does exotic mean?

• lively, easy-going, and carefree in manner, smart or trim in appearance.
• foreign, charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual.
• a defensive movement in fencing and other sports; to ward off, fend off, evade, avoid.
• the severely damaging or destructive effects of something; cause severe and extensive damage to.
  

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What does attribute mean?

• lively, easy-going, and carefree in manner, smart or trim in appearance.
• showy and flashy but lacking in good taste.
• a wet, muddy, or dusty area used by animals as a sort of bath; a state of moral or physical collapse; to roll about in a lazy, clumsy, or helpless way; to overindulge in; to have in abundance.
• a quality or characteristics belonging to or associated with someone or something; to assign to, credit with; regard as caused by or resulting from.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.3.4D

What does convey mean?

• to transport; to transmit; to communicate, make known, to transmit ownership or title to.
• a belief, principle, or teaching a system of such beliefs or principles; a formulation of such beliefs or principles.
• the highest point, the cream of the crop.
• to make something smaller that it really is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What does menial mean?

• a person who switches to an opposing side or party.
• a way of holding the body, an attitude or position on an issue.
• not requiring much skill and lacking prestige; a person who does the humble and unpleasant tasks
• not putting on airs, unpretentious, modest.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

What does ravage mean?

• showy and flashy but lacking in good taste.
• preying on, plundering, or piratical.
• the severely damaging or destructive effects of something, cause severe and extensive damage to.
• a joining together; the point at which two things are joined; any important point in time.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

What is does wallow mean?

• to transport; to transmit; to communicate, make known, to transmit ownership or title to.
• to move to and from, become unsteady; to show lack of firmness and decision.
• to make something smaller that it really is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value.
• a wet, muddy, or dusty area used by animals as a sort of bath; a state of moral or physical collapse; to roll about in a lazy, clumsy, or helpless way; to overindulge in; to have in abundance.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

What does acme mean?

• preying on, plundering, or piratical.
• lively, easy-going, and carefree in manner, smart or trim in appearance.
• a belief, principle, or teaching a system of such beliefs or principles; a formulation of such beliefs or principles.
• the highest point, the cream of the crop.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What does jaunty mean? 

• lively, easy-going, and carefree in manner, smart or trim in appearance.
• not requiring much skill and lacking prestige; a person who does the humble and unpleasant tasks.
• looking exhausted or unwell especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering.
• the highest point, the cream of the crop.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.3.4D

What does excise mean?

• showy and flashy but lacking in good taste.
• a wet, muddy, or dusty area used by animals as a sort of bath; a state of moral or physical collapse; to roll about in a lazy, clumsy, or helpless way; to overindulge in; to have in abundance.
• an indirect tax on the manufacture, sale, or distribution of a commodity or service; to remove by cutting.
• to transport; to transmit; to communicate, make known, to transmit ownership or title to.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

What does haggard mean?

• a joining together; the point at which two things are joined; any important point in time.
• looking exhausted or unwell especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering.
• a person who switches to an opposing side or party.
• to make something smaller that it really is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value. 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C