ELA 11th grade vocabulary 2024-2025
Across
- 2. passionate, eager, enthusiastic
- 5. a risk, or the fact that someone is legally responsible for something
- 6. behaviour that shows no interest or energy and shows that someone is unwilling to take action, especially over something important
- 7. rude, showing little respect
- 10. to completely captivate
- 11. small pieces of metal that fly through the air when a bomb or similar weapon explodes
- 14. forgetful, distracted, not thinking
- 16. the main offices of an organization such as the army, the police, or a business company
- 17. serious and honest
- 20. disgusting
- 22. to examine closely and carefully
- 23. to partly close your eyes in order to see more clearly
- 24. to store or hide something, especially a large amount
- 26. not careful about saying or doing something that could upset someone:
- 28. expressing hate
- 34. to measure or calculate
- 35. to talk or write about past experiences that you remember with pleasure
- 37. good for you, and likely to improve your life either physically, morally, or emotionally
- 38. a feeling that something bad is going to happen soon
- 39. to smell really bad
Down
- 1. never-ending
- 3. evil
- 4. extreme unhappiness caused by physical or mental suffering
- 8. to destroy completely
- 9. an unpleasant situation that is difficult to get out of
- 12. awkward in movement or manner
- 13. to prevent someone from being part of a group because you dislike the person or disapprove of something the person has done
- 15. to ask or find out about something
- 18. having a very strong but not usually lasting feeling of love or attraction for someone
- 19. without money, food, a home, or possessions
- 21. very excited
- 25. unharmed
- 27. to decrease or become less strong or extreme
- 29. a sudden forceful expression of emotion, especially anger:
- 30. the level or point at which you start to experience something, or at which something starts to happen
- 31. doubtful or hesitant
- 32. weak or unhealthy, or easily damaged, broken, or harmed
- 33. to go into or through something, making a hole in it using a sharp point
- 36. an empty space
- 38. film or videotape that shows a single event or place