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8thVocabulary Unit 3
Review for Quiz on 12/22
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allot | to assign or distribute in shares or portions |
| amass | to bring together, collect, gather, to assemble |
| audacious | bold adventurous recklessly daring |
| comply | to yield to a request or demand |
| devoid | not having or using lacking |
| elite | the choice part of a group of people or things superior |
| grapple | an iron hook used to grab and hold to come to grips with, wrestle or fight with |
| incapacitate | to deprive of strength or ability to make legally ineligible |
| instigate | long life long duration length of life |
| myriad | in very great numbers a very great number |
| perspective | a point of view or standpoint from which different topics are viewed. |
| perturb | to trouble, make uneasy to disturb greatly to confuse |
| prodigious | immense extraordinary in bulk, size or degree |
| skittish | extremely nervous and easily frightened shy or timid Extremely cautious |
| relevant | connected with or related to the matter at hand |
| tether | a rope or chain used to fasten something to a fixed object to fasten with a rope or chain |
| unison | a sounding together agreement accord |
| vie | to compete to strive for victory or superiority |
| willful | stubbornly self-willed done on purpose deliberate |