ESL Advanced Vocabulary

What's another way of saying that you enjoy something?

• indulge in

• squander

• deploy

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Most of the students _______ the exam and afterwards forgot everything they had learned.

• A. scraped by on
• B. scraped into
• C. scraped through
• D. scraped up

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

We were _______ disappointed when the award for best project went to our main competitors.

• A. absolutely
• B. bitterly
• C. painfully
• D. utterly

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

After about an hour’s earful of this, unable to get a word in _______, we started talking over him.

• A. edgeways
• B. endways
• C. leastways
• D. sideways

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

To spend time considering a possible future action.

• to contemplate

• to dribble

• to shuffle

• to plead

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A heavy lunch makes me ____________ in the afternoon.

• sluggish

• plodding

• leisurely

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

A ____________ walk before breakfast help to sharpen the appetite.

• brisk

• brusque

• brash

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

A lengthy _____________

• meeting

• car

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

adj. lacking concern, emotion

• aggrieved
• apathetic

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

adj. watchful, alert

• cognizant
• vigilant

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E