6th Vocab Lesson 14
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bcmeek on February 12, 2012
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SAS 6th grade, SAS Study Skills
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 applicable | appropriate or relevant to a situation |
| expedient | adj - convenient and self-serving rather than morally correct noun - a convenience; something used to achieve a result |
| extraneous | not essential or relevant; unrelated |
| functional | 1. able to operate; in working order 2. intended to be useful |
| futile | not successful; without effect or result |
| obsolete | no longer in use or fashion |
| opportune | well timed; occurring at an appropriate or fitting time |
| pragmatic | practical; concerned with realities and actual needs (as opposed to ideas or theories) |
| relevant | related or conncected to; important in a given context |
| utilitarian | designed to be useful rather than beautiful or pleasing |
| obsolete | In fifty years, gasoline engines may be ____ and replaced with something else. |
| extraneous | My cousin's stories are very long because she puts in ____ details. |
| opportune | The storm hit at a(n) ____ time; I couldn't have run another anyway. |
| pragmatic | I'm ____, so don't bother me with theories; just give me the facts. |
| utilitarian | The ____ bags were ugly, but could hold heavy loads. |
| functional | She couldn't drive vry far because her old car was barely ____. |
| relevant | Deforestation and gas mileage are both ____ to the issue of global warming. |
| expedient | Carrying the large stereo wasn't exactly a(n) ____ for hiking up the mountain. |
| futile | Trying to plug holes in the roof was ___; the rain continued to leak in. |
| applicable | The minimum driving age isn't always ____ on private farms. |
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