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6th grade 1st qrtr
comprehensive spelling list 1st qtr
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acquire | To gain possesion of: To get |
| adorned | To enhance of decorate: to lend beauty to |
| anthropomorphic | Suggesting human characteristicsfor animals or inanimate objects |
| assume | take to be the case or to be true without verification or proof |
| astounded | To suprise greatly |
| aurochs | Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox: considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle |
| bounded | To leap forward or upward: spring: jump. |
| brawny | Muscular, strong, powerful |
| bullying | the verbal, written, physical, or psychological abuse of another student by means of threats, intimidation, insults, taunts, challenges, or other aggressive behavior. |
| chamber | A compartment or enclosed space: a room |
| Chauvet | A cave containing Paleolithic paintings in southeastern France named for one of the explorers who found it in 1994. |
| clan | A large group of relatives, friends, or associates: a tribe |
| clangor | A loud racket |
| cockleshell | A round heart shaped shell ( like a mussel shell) |
| consumed | To eat or drink up |
| debase | Lower in value |
| defamation | An attack on a person's character or beliefs |
| defiance | Intentionally resisting or disregarding authority |
| deterioration | Decay: grow worse |
| due process | established rules and procedures that protect an individual |
| effervescent | Bubbly |
| Elaborately | rich detail |
| embarnkment | A long artificial mount of stone or earth: built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection |
| enabled | to make possible |
| enjoin | To prohibit or forbid |
| enormous | Greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc: hugeimmense: mammoth |
| entice | to lure: to attract with promise of some reward |
| migratory | moving form place to place |
| misuse | improper, unlawful, or incorrect use |
| mortify | Humliate |
| mull | To go over extensively in the mind: ponder |
| muzzle | The forward, porjeting part of the head of certain animals, such as dogs, including the mouth, nose and jaws: the snout |
| Neanderthals | Extinct robust humans of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia |
| newfangled | A term for a new, improved items or concept |
| optimum | Most favorable or ddesirable |
| ornate | rich in decorative detail |
| palatial | large and richly decorated: like a palace |
| Paleolithic | The old stone age |
| parphernalia | equipment: articles used in a particular activity |
| patent | An exclusive right or title |
| patriarch | The father and ruler of a family |
| personification | Giving human qualities to things that are not human |
| philosophy | A system of values of bleiefs by which one lives |
| pictograph | A picture representing a word or idea |
| pigment | Coloring matter |
| plagiarism | Taking someon's word or ideas as if they were your own |
| posterior | rear or back |
| prehistoric | Time before writing |
| primitive | Primary or basic: ancient |
| property | Something owned |
| pugmarks | The print, track, or trail of an animal |
| quibble | To avoid the issue by raising unimportant details |
| reinforced | strengthened |
| reliable | Able to depend upon |
| remotely | to a small degree: slightly |
| resonant | Strong and deep in tone |
| respect | Honor, admiration, or esteem: high regard |
| restitution | Providing an equivalent replacement or compensation for damages |
| ritual | Ceremony or celebration |
| scouring | To search through a place |
| except | other than: but |
| expanse | Something that is spread out, especially over a large area. |
| expect | to look forward to something that is likely to happen |
| explicate | To make clear the meaning of: explain |
| floundering | To make clumsy attempts to move or regain ones balance |
| flourished | Thrived, succeeded |
| flushed | To turn red as from fever, embarrassment, or strong emotion: blush |
| gaudy | bright and showy in a way that displaysbad taste |
| gloat | To show malicious delight |
| gnawed | to bite chew on or erode with the teeth |
| gouge | to cut scoop or groove a hole |
| harassment | Persestent or repeated annoying or tormenting of another |
| haunches | The hip, buttock, and upper thigh in humans and animals |
| heralded | One that gives a sign or indication of something to come |
| hideous | so extremely ugly as to be terrifying |
| hobbled | To walk or move along haltingly or with difficulty: limp |
| horseplay | rough or disorderly behavior |
| immaculate | impeccably clean:spotless |
| Immensely | to a great extent: enormously, hugely |
| impossition | a burdensome or unfair demand |
| impudence | the quality of being offensively bold: rude |
| indict | To accuse of wrong doing: charge |
| insubordination | Failing to follow dirctions of authority: disobedient |
| insulation | Material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity |
| invisible | impossible to see |
| kiln | oven for making pottery |
| lascaux | a cave containing Paleolithic paintings in southwestern France found by 4 teenage boys in 1940 |
| legacy | something that has come from a predecessor or the past |
| lemmings | a small rodent resembling a fat, furry, hamster. |
| limestone | A soft sedimentary rock |
| livid | Extremely angry: furious |
| lurching | To roll or pitch suddenly or erratically |
| mammoth | Immensely large: huge: enormous |
| memoir | The personal experiences of an author: an autobiography |
| scraggly | lacking neatness or order, ragged or unkempt |
| shaman | A with doctor or tribal priest, a person who acts as inermediary between the natural and supernatural worlds, using magic to cure illeness, foretell th efuture, control spiritual forces, etc |
| shunned | avoided |
| skewer | To pierce with a thin, pointy stick before cooking |
| slough | A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud: a stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater. |
| sociable | friendly: able to get along with others |
| specialty | A famous, favorite thing that someone does |
| sporadic | Happening at unpredictable or irregular times |
| stereotype | a fixed idea especially |
| student rights | privileges that students are entitled to |
| subsisted | To maintain life: To live(on) |
| sudden | happening without warning |
| superstitious | someone who holds irrational beliefs |
| surge | To increase suddenly |
| suspension | the act of stopping or keeping from temporarily |
| symbolic | expressed by an object that represents something invisible |
| taboo | not to be noticed or mentioned |
| tenement | a crowded, rundown aparment building |
| tolerated | to put up with: to allow |
| trespass | Entering property without justification or permission |
| truancy | being absent from class or school without permission |
| tussocks | a clump or tuft, as of growing grass |
| vandalism | the willful act of defacing or destroying something |
| vulgar | disrespectful and displaying bad taste |
| wheedle | to gain or get by flattery |
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