PSAT Vocab Quiz 9

Omnipotent

• Loud and disorderly
• Found everywhere; commonplace
• Easily influenced or shaped
• Having unlimited power or authority

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Malleable

• Able to be shaped or influenced easily
• Strong and unbreakable
• Lacking any importance or seriousness
• Difficult to understand or explain

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Ubiquitous

• Unable to change or adapt
• Easily discouraged from acting
• Extremely rare or difficult to find
• Found everywhere; commonplace

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Inhibit

• To express gratitude or appreciation
• To encourage someone to take action
• To prevent, restrain, or hinder
• To make something appear larger or greater

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Substantiate

• To hide or make unclear
• To embellish or exaggerate
• To prove or support with evidence
• To argue against something

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Lacking seriousness or importance; silly or trivial

• Beseech
• Boisterous
• Inhibit
• Frivolous

Noisy, energetic, and rowdy

• Substantiate
• Boisterous
• Embellish
• Inhibit

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

To beg, plead, or implore

• Frivolous
• Beseech
• Malleable
• Dissuade

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

To persuade someone not to do something

• Inhibit
• Boisterous
• Dissuade
• Embellish

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

To decorate or exaggerate by adding extra details

• Embellish
• Beseech
• Substantiate
• Inhibit

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D