Advanced Vocabulary Words: Confident to Demise
This set splits neatly down the middle. The first half opens with con-, the together prefix, and the second half opens with de-, which pushes a meaning down, away, or backward. Sorting the ten words into those two piles is most of the work. Two words refuse to join either group, and one of them, […]
Advanced Vocabulary Words: Chasm to Concoct
Chasm means a deep crack or opening in the ground, or, figuratively, a wide gap between people, groups or ideas, as in “a chasm between the two sides.” On a test that asks what chasm most nearly means, look for gulf, abyss or gap. Read this set aloud and something jumps out: cohort, commission, commodity, […]
