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Vocab List 1
Grade 8 School Quiz 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Exult | to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant: |
| Bravado | a swaggering display of courage. |
| Allay | to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; calm; quiet |
| Felicity | a source of happiness. |
| Expedient | conducive to advantage or interest, as opposed to right. |
| Succumb | to give way to superior force; yield: |
| Incumbent | necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding. |
| Pestilence | a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. |
| Aversion | a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance. |
| Woe | profound grief or distress; misery resulting from affliction. |
| Unfathomable | impossible to understand |
| Perpetual | continuing forever or indefinitely. |
| Consummate | perfect and complete in every respect. |
| Vile | wretchedly bad. highly offensive, unpleasant, or objectionable: |
| Irrevocable | not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; |
| Equivocal | of doubtful nature or character;of uncertain significance; not determined: |
| Atrocity | an act of shocking cruelty. |
| Malevolence | wishing evil to others. |