Vocabulary Words; 8Th Grade; Liturature

Front 1

perpetrate

Back 1

commit, present

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consummate

Back 2

complete, of highest degree, perfection, fulfill

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subterfuge

Back 3

deception, scheme, trick, dodge, ruse

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concoct

Back 4

devise, make up, contrive, invent, fabricate, hatch

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fallacious

Back 5

misleading, deceptive, disappointing; delusive, false

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manifold

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various, multitudinous, many, complex, varied, divers, multifarious

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assiduous

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devoted, attentive, constant, unremitting, working diligently, persevering, industrious,

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impeccable

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faultless; flawless; irreproachable

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fraught

Back 9

filled

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resourceful

Back 10

"ingenious" able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc, able to meet any situation

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murky

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"mississippi river" dark, gloomy, cheerlesscloudy, dusky, lowering, misty, hazy, vague; unclear; confused

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component

Back 12

a constituent part; element; ingredient

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hoax

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play a joke on, pull someone's leg, dupery, fraud, fraudulence, deception

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labyrinth

Back 14

a maze (one you walk in) arrangement of winding passages

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evaluate

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to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise, to determine the significance, worth, or quality of; assess, appraise

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exult

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delight, glory, revel, rejoice greatly

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attest

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to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, genuine; declare the truth of, to give proof/evidence

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gullible

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credulous, trusting, naive, innocent, simple, green, easily cheated, fooled, or decieved, dupe

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deploy

Back 19

to position forces according to a plan

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enigma

Back 20

problem, puzzle, riddle

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abortive

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failed, failing, fruitless, futile, ineffective, ineffectual, miscarried, unavailing, unproductive, unsuccessful, useless, vain, worthless

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modify

Back 22

to change, alteration

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accommodate

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to make fit, to adjust, board, contain, domicile, entertain, furnish, harbor, hold, house, put up, quarter, receive, rent, shelter, supply, take in, welcome

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spontaneous

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without preparation, unrehearsed, ad-lib, automatic, break loose, casual, down, extemporaneous, extempore, free, free spirited, from the hip, impetuous, impromptu, improvised, inevitable, instinctive, involuntary, irresistible, natural, off top of head, off-the-cuff, offhand, simple, unartful, unavoidable, unbidden, uncompelled, unconscious, unconstrained, uncontrived, uncontrolled, unforced, unintentional, unplanned, unpremediated, unprompted, unsophisticated, unstudied, up front, voluntary

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innate

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natural, congenital, connate, connatural, constitutional, deep-seated, elemental, essential, hereditary, inborn, inbred, indigenous, ingrained, inherent, instinctive, intrinsic, intuitive, natural, normal, regular, standard, typical, unacquired

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veneer

Back 26

thin covering, appearance, coating, cover, covering, disguise, exterior, facade, face, finish, gloss, guise, layer, leaf, mask, overlay, semblance, show, surface, window dressing

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myriad

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countless, endless, gobs, heaping, immeasurable, incalculable, infinite, multiple, multitudinous, no end of, numberless, thousand-and-one, uncounted, untold, variable

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urbane

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affable, civil, civilized, cordial, cosmopolitan, courteous, cultivated, cultured, debonair, elegant, genteel, polished, polite, refined, smooth, sophisticated, suave

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crave

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desire, ache for, covet, cry out for, die for, dream, eat one's heart out, fancy, give eyeteeth for, hunger for, itch for, long for, lust after, need, pine for, require, sigh for, spoil for, suspire, thirst for, want, yearn for, yen for

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irrelevant

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not related to the subject, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, heterogeneous, immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, incidental, inconsequent, inconsequential, insignificant, marginal, moot, nihil ad rem, nonessential, peripheral, pointless, tangential, unapt, unconnected, unessential, unimportant, unrelated, wide of the mark

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deem

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to judge, account, allow, appraise, assume, be afraid, believe, calculate, conceive, conjecture, credit, daresay, divine, esteem, estimate, expect, feel, guess, hold, imagine, judge, know, presume, reckon, sense, set store by, suppose, surmise, suspect, think, understand, view

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inherent

Back 32

built-in, characteristic, congenital, connate, constitutional, deep-rooted, deep-seated, distinctive, elementary, essential, fixed, fundamental, genetic, immanent, implicit, in the grain, inborn, inbred, inbuilt, indigenous, indispensable, individual, indwelling, ingrained, inherited, innate, inner, instinctive, integral, integrated, internal, intimate, intrinsic, inward, latent, native, natural, original, part and parcel, resident, running in the family, subjective, unalienable

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buff

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a fan, follower, addict, admirer, aficionado, connoisseur, devotee, expert, fan, fiend*, freak*, habitué, hound, lover, votary

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romp

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to move in a lively manner, antic, cakewalk, cavort, dance, escapade, frisk, frolic, gambol, hop, lark, leap, play, rollick, rout, skip, sport

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latent

Back 35

lying hidden, abeyant, between the lines, concealed, contained, covert, idle, immature, implied, in abeyance, inactive, inert, inferential, inferred, inherent, inoperative, intrinsic, invisible, involved, lurking, passive, possible, potential, quiescent, rudimentary, secret, sleeping, smoldering, suppressed, suspended, tacit, torpid, underdeveloped, underlying, undeveloped, unexposed, unexpressed, unrealized, unripe, unseen, veiled, vestigial

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tortuous

Back 36

winding, anfractuous, bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, flexuous, indirect, involute, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, twisting, vermiculate, winding, zigzag

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itinerant

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wandering, afoot, ambulant, ambulatory, floating, gypsy, journeying, migratory, moving, nomadic, on foot, peripatetic, ranging, riding the rails, roving, shifting, travelling, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring

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conjugal

Back 38

relating to marriage, bridal, connubial, hymeneal, married, matrimonial, nuptial, spousal, wedded

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barometer

Back 39

instrument for measuring change, pressure indicator, storm gauge, weather gauge, weatherglass