Vocab Words Unit 7. Grade 7

(adj.) lively, easy, and carefree in manner; smart or trim in appearance

• jaunty

• stance

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

(n.) a way of holding the body; an attitude or position on an issue

• jaunty

• stance (n.)

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CCSS.L.5.5C

(v.) to ward off, fend off, deflect, evade, avoid; (n.) a defensive movement in fencing and other sports

• parry(v)

• stance

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CCSS.L.5.5C

(v.) to destroy, lay waste, ruin; (n.) ruinous damage, destruction

• ravage (v.)

• parry

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CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

(adj.) thin, pale, and careworn as a result of worry or suffering; wild-looking

• haggard (adj.)

• ravage

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

(n.) a quality or characteristic belonging to or associated with someone or something; (v.) to assign to, credit with; to regard as caused by or resulting from

• attribute (n.)

• jaunty

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

(n.) a joining together; the point at which two things are joined; any important point in time

• attribute

• juncture (n.)

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CCSS.L.5.5C

(n.) a belief, principle, or teaching; a system of such beliefs or principles; a formulation of such beliefs or principles

• doctrine (n.)

• resolute

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

• belittle (v.)

• anguish

(adj.) foreign; charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual

• exotic (adj.)

• finesse