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lang arts vocab 8th
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| Word | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reformatory | An institution for young or first offenders, are committed. |
| Affectionately | Affection or love, foundly tender. |
| Delinquent | Failing in or naglective of a duty or abligation. |
| Savvy | To know, understand. |
| Contempt | The state of being dispised, worthless. |
| Pity | Sympethetic or kindly sarrow, evoked by the suffering, regret |
| Apprehensive | Capable of apprehending or quich to do so, afraid. |
| Contemptuously | Manifesting, feeling, or expression, defaint. |
| Ruefully | Exciting pity or sympathy, pitiable. |
| Reformatory | An institution, partly prison, partly school. |
| Hermits | A person who has withdrawn from society and lives in a solitary existance. |
| Premonition | A feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event. |
| Imploringly | To beg urgently or piteously, crave. |
| Gallant | Brave, attentive. |
| Eluded | To avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, baffle. |
| Fiend | Fanitic, devil |
| Indignant | Filled with of marked by indignation, angry. |
| Loping | To move or ride, trot. |
| Incredulous | Unwilling to admit or except what is offered as true, disbeliving, questioning. |
| Nonchalantly | To discard, not caring, cool. |
| Rouguishly | Not clearly expressed, unclear. |
| Vaguely | Dishonest, mischieif. |
| Prejudice | To injure of damage by some judgement or action. |
| Stereotyping | The quality or state of being intolerant, narrow minded. |
| Intolerant | To repeat without variation, prejudice, impaitent. |
| Testify | To make a statement based on personal knowledge oor belief, depone. |
| Bewilderment | To perplex or confuse, pussled, confused. |
| Mimicking | Coping the manner of expression of another, imatate, copy. |
| Aghast | To freighten, shocked, amazement, dombfounded. |
| Exploits | A sriking or notable deed, feat, to use selfishly for ones needs. |
| Contemptuously | Rudely, showing or expressing contemptor disdain, scornful. |
| Aimlessly | Without direction, having no purpose, blindly. |
| Scarce | Insufficient, failing, few, rare. |