Vocab Review 3.4

Which of these words has a definition that relates to money/financials?

• Churlish

• Pecuniary

• Bellicose

• Gauche

• Ostentatious

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What two words below are opposites?

• Dearth

• Indolent

• Listless

• Preponderance

• Loquacious

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

A difficult draw question: draw an image that represents either the word "banal" or the word "vapid".

The word _______ means "excessive pride or arrogance." (The word is six letters long)

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

If you were planning a major battle, you'd love to have a general that has the ability of . . .

• Capitulation

• Listlessness

• Fatuousness

• Hubris

• Prognostication

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Which words below have a positive connotation?

• Salient

• Ameliorate

• Feckless

• Garrulous

• Felicitous

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5B

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

You are on a first date. The person you are with says that they think the date "has had an auspicious start". Is this a good or bad thing? Explain your thinking.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5B

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of these words would you like to see applied to a sports team you play for?

• Languid

• Listless

• Indomitable

• Churlish

• Pernicious

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

I'm bad at dinner talk. At our most recent family dinner, my mom told me to not be so ​ (a)   , since all I wanted to talk about was the dead fox I found in the backyard.

• macabre
• auspicious
• surreptitious
• ebullient
• opulent
• insipid

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Which two words below can refer to someone who talks a lot, but really isn't saying anything important/of substance?

• Loquacious

• Sanguine

• Salient

• Garrulous

• Indolent

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F