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rgbbure VOCAB 8th F
8th Grade Final Vocabulary Definitions
| Word | Part Of Speech | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Abdicate | Verb | To resign, formally give up an office or a duty; to disown, discard. |
| Bestow | Verb | To give as a gift; to provide with lodgings. |
| Mendicant | Noun, Adjective | (N.) A begger. (Adj.) Depending on begging for a living. |
| Teem | Verb | To become filled to overflowing; to be present in large quantities. |
| Tractable | Adjective | Easily managed, easy to deal woth; easily wroght, malleable. |
| Ungainly | Adjective | Clumsy, aquward; unweildy. |
| Attire | Noun, Verb | (N.) Clothes, apparel. (V.) To dress or adorn. |
| Crony | Noun | A vary close friend, pal, chum. |
| Gaunt | Adjective | Thin and bony, starved looking; bare,barren. |
| Infiltrate | Verb | To pass through or gain entrance to gragually or stealthily. |
| Plummet | Verb, Noun | (V.) To plunge straight down. (N.) A weight fastened to a line. |
| Defile | Verb-Transitive, Verb-Intransitive, Noun | (V. Trans.) To make unclean or dirty, destroy the purity of. (V. Intrans.) To march in a single line or in colums. (N.) A narrow passage. |
| Penal | Adjective | Having to do with punishment. |
| Dexterous | Adjective | Skillful in the use of the hands or body; clever. |
| Personable | Adjective | Pleasing in appearance or personality, attractive. |
| Scoff | Verb | To make fun of; to show contempt for. |
| Calamitous | Adjective | Causing great misfortune. |
| Decoy | Verb, Noun | (V.) To lure into a trap. (N.) A person or thing used to lure into a trap. |
| Delve | Verb | To dig; to search deeply and thouroughly in. |
| Ensue | Verb | To follow in order, come immediately after as a result. |
| Judicious | Adjective | Using or showing good judgment, wise, sensible. |
| Overbearing | Adjective | Domineering,haughty, bullying; overpowering, predominant. |
| Quirk | Noun | A peculiar way of acting; a sudden twist or turn. |
| Adapt | Verb | To adjust or change to suit conditions. |
| Attest | Verb | To bear witness, affirm to be true or genuine. |
| Dovetail | Verb, Noun | (V.) To fit together exactly; to connect so as to form a whole. (N.) A carpentry figure resembling a dove's tail. |
| Enormity | Noun | The quality of exceeding all mortal bounds; an exceedingly evil act; huge size; immensity. |
| Foreboding | Noun, Adjective | (N.) A warning or feeling that something will happen. (Adj.) Marked with fear, ominous. |
| Forlorn | Adjective | Totally abandoned and helpless; sad and lonley; wretched or pitiful; almost hopeless. |
| Haughty | Adjective | Chilling proud and scornful. |
| Impediment | Noun | A physical defeat; a hinderence, obstacle. |
| Imperative | Adjective, Noun | (Adj.) Necessary, urgent. (N.) A form of a verb expressing a command; that which is necessayy or required. |
| Malinger | Verb | To pretend illness to avoid duity or work. |
| Plunder | Verb, Noun | (V.) To rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully. (N.) Property stolen by force, booty. |
| Steadfast | Adjective | Firmly fixed; constant, not moving or changing. |
| Vilify | Verb | To abuse or belittle unjustly or maliciously. |
| Waif | Noun | A person (usually a child) without a home or friend; a stray person or animal; something that comes along by chance, a stray bit. |
| Wry | Adjective | Twisten, turning to one side; cleverly and often grimly humorous. |
| Amplify | Verb | To make stronger, larger, greater, louder, or the like. |
| Arrogant | Adjective | Haughty, too convinced of one's own importance. |
| Disclaim | Verb | To deny interest in or connected with; to give up all claim to. |
| Epoch | Noun | A distinct period of time, era, age. |
| Estrange | Verb | To drift apart or become unfriendly; to cause such a separation; to remove or to keep at a distance. |
| Gratify | Verb | To please, sastify; to indulge or humor. |
| Infinite | Adjective, Noun | (Adj.) Exceedingly great, inexhaustible, without limit, endless. (N., preceded by the) an incalculable number, the concept of infinity. (Cap. I) A name for God. |
| Irascible | Adjective | Easily made angry, hot-tempered. |
| Kindred | Noun, Adjective | (N.) A person's relatives; a family relationship. (Adj.) Related by blood; like, similar. |
| Naive | Adjective | Innocent, unsophisticated, showing lack of worldly knowledge and experience. |
| Niche | Noun | A decorative recess in a wall; a sutiable place or position for a person or thing. |
| Obliterate | Verb | To blot out completely, destroy utterly. |
| Ramshackle | Adjective | Appearing ready to collapse, loose and shaky. |
| Ransack | Verb | To search or examine thoroughly; to rob, plunder. |
| Solvent | Adjective, Noun | (Adj.) Able to meet one's financial obligations; having the power to dissolve other substances. (N.) A liquid used to dissolve other substances; something that solves, explains, eliminates, eliminates, or softens. |
| Tedious | Adjective | Long and tresome. |
| Vendor | Noun | A person who sells something. |
| Gallantry | Noun | Heroic courage; respect and courtesy; an act or statement marked by a high level of courtesy. |
| Scavenger | Noun | A person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies. |
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