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Grade 6 ELA
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bilious | Physiology, Pathology . pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile. extremely unpleasant or distasteful: a long scarf of bright, bilious green. |
| Warily | in a wary manner. |
| Flank | the side of an animal or a person between the ribs and hip.the side of anything, as of a building. |
| Bravado | a pretentious, swaggering display of courage. |
| Obliquely | in an oblique manner or direction. at an angle; slanting; sloping |
| Menace | Something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health. |
| Tenacity | the quality or property of being tenacious. holding or grasping firmly; forceful: a tenacious grip. retentive,stubborn or persistent: a tenacious character.holding together firmly; tough or cohesive: tending to stick or adhere: tenacious mud |
| Recourse | access or resort to a person or thing for help or protection: to have recourse to the courts for justice the right to collect from a maker or endorser of a negotiable instrument. "without recourse”transfer the instrument without assuming any liability. |
| Pinioned | The distal or terminal segment of the wing of a bird consisting of the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges.the wing of a bird.a feather.the flight feathers collectively. |
| Connotation | The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.” |
| Misconception | an erroneous conception; mistaken notion. |
| Pedantic | adjective ostentatious in one's learning. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching. |
| Annihilate | to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly. |
| Ominous | portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds. |
| Emanate | to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate. |
| Deviate | to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc. to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm. to digress, as from a line of thought or reasoning. |
| Placidly | pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters. |
| Brusquely | abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return. |
| Insolent | boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply |
| Gait | a manner of walking, stepping, or running.any of the manners in which a horse moves, as a walk, trot, canter, gallop, or rack. |
| Implore | beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go. to beg urgently or piteously for (aid, mercy, pardon, etc.): implore forgiveness. |
| Tentatively | of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings. unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant: a tentative smile on his face. |
| Omnipotent | almighty or infinite in power, as God. having very great or unlimited authority or power. |
| Miasma | noun, plural mi·as·mas, mi·as·ma·ta [-muh-tuh] Show IPA. noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere. a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere. |
| Atrophied | exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent. |
| Frigid | very cold in temperature: a frigid climate. without warmth of feeling; without ardor or enthusiasm: a frigid reaction to the suggested law. stiff or formal: a welcome that was polite but frigid. |
| Imperceptible | very slight, gradual, or subtle: the imperceptible slope of the road. not perceptible; not perceived by or affecting the senses. |
| Corrosive | having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive. harmful or destructive; deleterious: the corrosive effect of poverty on their marriage. sharply sarcastic; caustic: corrosive comments on the speaker's integrity. |
| Fallible | (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken. Liable to be erroneous or false; not accurate: fallible information. |
| Revulsion | a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike. a sudden and violent change of feeling or response in sentiment, taste, etc. the act of drawing something back or away. |
| Assuage | to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain. to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger. to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger. |
| Trepidation | tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation. trembling or quivering movement; tremor. |
| Acute | sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.. |
| Counteract | to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action. |
| Perplexity | the state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty. something that perplexes: a case plagued with perplexities. a tangled, involved, or confused condition or situation. |
| Jeopardize | to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower. |
| Temporal | pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly: temporal joys. |
| Converge | To tend to a common result, conclusion, etc. |
| Despondency | state of being despondent; depression of spirits from loss of courage or hope; dejection. |
| Distraught | distracted; deeply agitated. mentally deranged; crazed. |
| Appallingly | causing dismay or horror: an appalling accident; an appalling lack of manners. |
| Ministration | the act of ministering care, aid, religious service, etc. an instance of this. |
| Confound | 2. to throw into confusion or disorder: The revolution confounded the people. |
| Reiterate | to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively. |
| Unadulterated | not diluted or made impure by adulterating; pure: unadulterated maple syrup. utter; absolute: unadulterated nonsense. |
| Vestige | a very slight trace or amount of something: Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house. |
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