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8th grade vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abjure | to renounce under oath; to recant; to renounce |
| abrogate | to abolish or annul |
| acumen | quickness and keenness of judgment or insight |
| antebellum | belonging to a period before a war. especially the American Civil War |
| auspicious | attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success |
| belie | to give a false representation t; misrepresent; contradict |
| bellicose | warlike or hostile in manner or temperament |
| chicanery | deception by trickery |
| churlish | vulgar; having a bad disposition |
| circumlocution | the use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language |
| circumnavigate | to proceed completely around |
| deciduous | shedding foliage at the end of a growning season; falling off or shedding at a specific season or stage of growth |
| deleterious | having a harmful effect; injurious |
| diffident | shy timid; lacking self-confidence |
| enervate | to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of |
| enfranchise | to free or endow with the rights of citizenship |
| epiphany | a sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something; a revelation |
| equinox | either or the two times during a year when the sun crossed the celestial equator and when the length of day and night are approximately equal |
| evanescent | vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor |
| expurgate | to remove vulgar, erroneous, obscene or objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication |