6th Grade Vocabulary List

Week 16

Mr. Lima

Study Guide

Assignments are due on the following dates:

Definitions: Tuesday (12/15)

Sentences: COMPLETED IN CLASS

Quiz: Friday (12/18)

  1. Annunciate(verb): to announce.

(You need to annunciate your words when you recite poetry.)

  1. Appeal (noun): an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea.

(But until Sunday, his foreign policy had lacked “Jacksonian” appeal.)

  1. Create (verb): to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.

(First, it will seek to create a system that will help prevent a financial crisis like the current one from happening again.)

  1. Culpable (adjective): deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.

(But in this case, police and protestors alike are culpable for the mayhem on the streets.)

  1. Delectable (adjective): delightful; highly pleasing; enjoyable:

(With hints of maple and coffee, this cake is a perfect finish to a delectableChristmas feast.)

  1. Euphoria (noun): a state of intense happiness and self-confidence:

(Flooding your brain with dopamine and serotonin, it not only heightens feelings of euphoria, but empathy and love as well.)

  1. Expedition (noun): an excursion, journey, or voyage made for some specific purpose, as of war or exploration.

(In July, the pair was caught while on an expedition at The Maryland Historical Society.)

  1. Expectation (noun): the act or state of looking forward or anticipating.

(Where once there was expectation, thrills, and joy, there is now uncertainty, dread, and fear.)

  1. Pugnacious (adjective): inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.

(He served as a pugnacious and dedicated leader of the opposition.)

  1. Vulnerable (adjective): (of a place) open to assault; difficult to defend:

(The environment is vulnerable, finite, and must at all costs be protected.)

SAT Words:

  1. Embroil (verb): to bring into discord or conflict; involve in contention or strife.

(Avoid as you would the plague those who seek to embroil you in conflict, one Christian sect with another.)

  1. Guileless (adjective): free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank.

(And then, as in this 1972 letter to James Ivory, he is touchingly vulnerable and guileless.)

  1. Redundant (adjective): characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix:

(Overall, The Judge wants to be insightful and funny and sad, but it instead ends up being clichéd and redundant.)