Vocabulary 8Th Grade Midterms

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Annul

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(v.) to reduce to nothing, to make ineffective or inoperative; to make ineffective or inoperative;to declare legally invalid or void

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Apt

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(adj.)suitable, fitting, likely; quick to learn

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Attire

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(n.) clothes, apparel, garb; (v.)to dress, adorn, or bedeck

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Awry

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(adj., adv.) in a turned or twisted position or direction; wrong, out of the right or hoped-for course

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Belittle

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(v.) to make something appear smaller than it is; to refer to in a way that suggests lack of importance or value

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Blase

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(adj.) indifferent, bored as a result of having enjoyed many pleasures; apathetic

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Capitulate

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(v.) to end resistance, give up, surrender, throw in the towel

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Chafed

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(v.) to warm by rubbing; to wear sore by rubbing; to feel annoyance or dissatisfaction, annoy, irk; to stain or press against; (n.) a sore or injury caused by rubbing

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Convey

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(v.) to transport; to transmit; to communicate, make know; to transfer ownership or title to

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Crony

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(n.) a very close friend, pal, chum, buddy

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Cryptic

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(adj.) puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic

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Defile

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(v., trans.) to make unclean or dirty, destroy the purity of; (v., intrans.)to march in a single line or in columns; (n.) a narrow passage; gorge

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Deplore

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(v.) to feel or express regret or disapproval

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Detriment

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(n.) harm or loss; injury, damage; a disadvantage; a cause of harm, injury, loss, or damage

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Dire

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(adj.) dreadful, causing fear or suffering; warning of trouble to come; demanding immediate action to avoid disaster

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Elite

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(n.) the choice part of a group of people of things; (adj.) superior

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Enmity

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(n.) hatred, ill-will

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Excise

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(v.) to remove by cutting; (n.) an indirect tax on the manufacture, sale, or distribution of a commodity or service

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Exotic

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(adj.) foreign; charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual

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Ferret

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(n.) a kind of weasel; (v.) to search or hunt out; to torment, badger

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Fervent

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(adj.) very earnest, emotional passionate, extremely hot

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Gaunt

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(adj.) thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren

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Haggard

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(adj.) thin, pale, and careworn as a result of worry or suffering; wild-looking

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Impunity

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(n.) freedom from punishment

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Infiltrate

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(v.) to pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily

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Jaunty

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(adj.) lively, easy, and carefree in manner; smart or trim in appearance

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Mien

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(n.) air, manner; appearance; expression

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Plummet

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(v.) to plunge straight down; (n.) a weight fastened to a line

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Proxy

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(n.) an agent, substitute; a written permission allowing one person to act in another's place

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Recluse

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(n.) a person who leads a life shut up or withdrawn from the world

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Renown

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(n.) fame, glory

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Scavenger

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(n.) a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies

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Stance

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(n.) a way of holding the body; an attitude or position on an issue

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Stoical

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(adj.) self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain

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Sustain

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(v.) to support, nourish, keep up; to suffer, undergo; to bear up under withstand; to affirm the validity of

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Tawdry

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(ad.) showy and flashy but lacking in good taste

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Vex

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(v.) to annoy, anger, exasperate; to confuse, baffle

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Waver

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(v.) to move to and fro, become unsteady; to show lack of firmness or decision