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- Unit 9 will start your final six weeks. -Vocabulary Cumulative Test (Units 9, 10, 11, & 12 will be ) will Thursday, December 19 th !. Vocabulary Unit 9 ________________________________. reprehensible ( adj. ). Worthy of or deserving blame Synonyms: culpable, blamable, guilty .
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-Unit 9 will start your final six weeks. -Vocabulary Cumulative Test (Units 9, 10, 11, & 12 will be) will Thursday, December 19th! Vocabulary Unit 9 ________________________________
reprehensible (adj.) • Worthy of or deserving blame • Synonyms: culpable, blamable, guilty
profound (adj.) • Having intellectual insight and depth • Synonyms: abstruse, arcane, deep, scholarly
lethargic (adj.) • Laziness or lack of energy • Synonyms: dull, inactive, sluggish, torpid
pretentious (adj.) • having or showing the quality of people who want to be regarded as more impressive, successful, or important than they really are • Synonyms: conceited, ostentatious, pompous
verbose(adj) • given to wordiness or contains more words than necessary • Synonyms: wordy, long-winded, rambling
infamous (adj.) • Having a reputation of the worst kind • Synonyms: notorious, discreditable
rancid(adj) • Having a rank smell or taste • Synonyms: odious, foul, nauseating, rank
Homework- Due, tomorrow! Write an original sentence using each vocabulary word. -Make sure each sentence contains context clues that hint at the word’s meaning: Failure to do so will result in a lower score. -Circle the vocabulary word and underline the context clue(s) in each sentence.