Flashcards
Grade 8 Week 8 Vocabulary
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- 1ardordefinition: (noun) great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion: intense devotion, eagerness, or enthusiasm; zeal; burning heat.
- 2complexdefinition: (adj) composed of many interconnected parts; compound; characterized by a very complicated or involved arrangement of parts, units, etc
- 3desolatedefinition: (adj) deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; solitary; lonely
(verb) to lay waste; devastate; to deprive of inhabitants; depopulate. - 4egregiousdefinition: (adj) extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant
- 5expeditedefinition: (verb) to speed up the progress of; hasten
- 6inevitabledefinition: (adj) unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary:
an inevitable conclusion; sure to occur, happen, or come; unalterable - 7obsessivedefinition: (adj) being, pertaining to, or resembling an obsession; causing an obsession; excessive, especially extremely so
- 8reclusivedefinition: (adj) shut off or apart from the world; living in seclusion, often for religious reasons; characterized by seclusion; solitary
- 9reprovedefinition: (verb) to prove again
- 10temporarydefinition: (adj) lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent
- 11transgressdefinition: (verb) to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
verb (used with object);
to pass over or go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.) - 12arcanedefinition: (adj) known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric
- 13brittledefinition: (adj) having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture; easily damaged or destroyed; fragile; frail
- 14deposedefinition: (verb) to remove from office or position, especially high office; to testify or affirm under oath, especially in a written statement
- 15ditherdefinition: (verb) to act irresolutely; vacillate
(noun) a state of flustered excitement or fear - 16exoneratedefinition: (verb) to clear, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame; exculpate; to relieve, as from an obligation, duty, or task
- 17inducedefinition: (verb) to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind; to bring about, produce, or cause
- 18obscuredefinition:(adj) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain
(verb) to conceal or conceal by confusing - 19razedefinition: (verb) to tear down; demolish; level to the ground; to shave or scrape off
- 20repletedefinition: (adj) abundantly supplied or provided; filled