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8thGrLanguage Arts
8th Grade Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Long sword with rough edges;use of words to criticize or hurt | Rapier |
| To pretend | Feign |
| Nervous or fearful | Trepidacious |
| A group with a purpose of learning from a professor | Colloquium |
| Revenge | Retribution |
| Someone that enjoys learning | Philomath |
| To make excited | Titillate |
| Precise to details | Punctilious |
| Silly | Frivolous |
| Unusually extraordinary in size and number | Prodigious |
| To make hand movements while talking | Gesticulation |
| To purposely make something difficult to understand | Obfuscate |
| Strained;bitterly sarcastic | Sardonic |
| Knows about something particular | Aficionado |
| To act as a critical professional judge of an art | Connoisseur |
| Has the rights to negotiate | Emissary |
| Underground cemetery | Catacombs |
| Below an emissary | Envoy |
| Rob;steal;take dishonestly | Purloin |
| Freedom from punishment | Impunity |
| Ridiculous | Ludicrous |
| To sacrifice | Immolation |
| Potassium Nitrate | Niter |
| Use of more words than necessary | Pleonasm |
| Freedom from punity | Inculcate |
| Utterly hopeless;miserable | Abject |