Tricky Eleventh Grade Word Pairs: List 3

On the way to the base Colonel Meecham announced to his sons in a calm, didactic voice that they were both in critical need of a haircut. The Great Santini

The voice that had spoken it was a Scholar’s, precise and pedantic and lazily arrogant, very much a Jordan College voice. The Golden Compass

She reached for a screwdriver and disassembled the puppet until he was nothing more than a pile of scattered parts. Pax

Ridgeway knew that image to be false—he didn’t need to dissemble about the business of slavery—but neither was the menace of the Randall plantation the truth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel

That offer discomfited me with revised anxieties: what would we do during the visit? The Guardian

She didn’t like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Another cop car pulled up and then another, then all eight cops started asking the crowd to disperse, only holding a few people back to ask questions. All American Boys

Last year the government disbursed $10.6 billion in Parent Plus loans to just under a million families. Salon

He was described to me as an eminent, learned Muslim, a University of Cairo graduate, a University of London Ph.D., a lecturer on Islam, a United Nations advisor and the author of many books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Thankfully, the Audi had all sorts of flashing lights and sensors, so it could sound Red Alert when a collision was imminent. Darius the Great Is Not Okay

If you mean “inherent,” “present,” or “dwelling within,” the word is the rarely heard immanent. Woe Is I