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Vocab. Study Guide
Sixth Grade Mid-term Review
| Word or Term | meaning |
|---|---|
| hurtle | to rush violently, dash headlong, to fling or hurl forcefully |
| interminable | endless, so long as to seem endless |
| sullen | silent or brooding because of ill humor, anger or resentment, slow moving, sluggish |
| trickle | to flow or fall by drops or in a small stream, a small irregular quantity of anything |
| trivial | not important, minor, ordinary, commonplace |
| firebrand | a piece of burning wood, a troublemaker, an extremely emotional or energetic person |
| indispensable | absolutely necessary, not to be neglected |
| pelt | to throw a stream of things, or to strike successively |
| retard | to make slow, delay or hold back |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed, not injured |
| animated | full of life, lively or moved to action |
| literate | able to read and write |
| oration | a public speech for a formal occasion |
| seethe | to boil or foam, to be excited or disturbed |
| unique | one of a kind, unequaled, unusual |
| buffoon | a clown, a coarse or stupid person |
| fruitless | not producing the desired results, unsuccessful |
| malignant | deadly, extremely harmful, evil, spiteful, malicious |
| mortify | to hurt someone's feelings deeply, to cause embarrassment or humiliation, to subdue or discipline by self-denial or suffering |
| spirited | full of life and vigor, courageous |
| anecdote | a short account of an incident in someone's life |
| docile | easily taught, led or managed |
| fickle | liable to change very rapidly, erratic, marked by a lack of constancy or steadiness, inconsistent |
| maul | to beat or knock about, handle roughly, to mangle or a heavy hammer |
| tactful | skilled in handling difficult situations or people, polite |
| anonymous | unnamed, without the name of the person involved |
| dupe | a person easily tricked or deceived, to deceive |
| grim | stern, merciless, savage, cruel |
| inimitable | not capable of being copied |
| vengeance | punishment in return for an injury or wrong, unusual force or violence |
| NOUN | the name of a person, place or thing |
| ADJECTIVE | a word which describes a noun or a pronoun, tells how many, what kind or which one |
| VERB | describes what action someone or something is doing, can also describe a state of being |
| ADVERB | descrives a verb, adjective or another adverb, tells how, when, where, or to what degree |
| PROPOSITION | combines with a noun or pronooun to form a phrase that tells something about another word in the sentence |
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