Vocabulary Unit

(adj.) puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

(adj.) lowly, humble, lacking importance or dignity; (n.) a person who does the humble and unpleasant tasks

(v.) to make something appear smaller than it is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

(adj., part.) in bad humor, discontented, annoyed

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

(v.) to move to and fro, become unsteady; to show lack of firmness or decision

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

(v.) plunge straight down, (n.) a weight fastened to a line

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

(v.) to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.3.4D

(v.) to advance beyond the usual or proper limits, trespass

• rankle

• avail

• encroach

• defile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

(n.) a person who switches to an opposing side or party

• ravage

• doctrine

• turncoat

• attribute

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

(adj.) dreadful, causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come

• dire

• divergent

• penal

• gaunt