8th grade vocab final words

Abut

(v.) to join at one end or be next to; to support, prop up

Acme

(n.) the highest point

Attribute

(n.) A quality or characteristic belonging to or associated with someone or something
(v.) to assign to, credit with; to regard as caused by or resulting from

Attire

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

Appease

(v.) to make calm, soothe; to relieve, satisfy; to yield to

Belittle

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

Belated

(adj.) late, tardy

Barter

(n.) to exchange in trade
(v.) to exchange goods

Bland

(adj.) gentle, soothing, mild; lacking interest or taste

Caustic

(adj.) able to burn or eat away by chemical action; biting, sarcastic

Calamitous

(adj.) causing great misfortune

Crony

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

Convey

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

Curt

(adj.) short, rudely brief

Crucial

(adj.) of supreme importance, decisive, critical

Conventional

(adj.) in line with accepted ideas or standards; trite

Dexterous

(adj.) skillful in the use of hands or body; clever

Defile

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

Disclaim

(v.) to deny interest in or connection with; to give up all claim to

Disgruntled

(adj., part) in bad humor, discontented, annoyed

Divergent

(adj.) going in directions; different from each other; departing from convention, deviant

Doctrine

(n.) a belief, principal, or teaching; a system of such beliefs or principles; a formulation of such beliefs or principles

Exasperate

(v.) to irritate, annoy, or anger

Estrange

(v.) to drift apart or become unfriendly; to cause such as separation; to move or keep at a distance

Enormity

(n.) The quality of exceeding on more bones; an exceedingly evil act; huge size, immensity

Encroach

(v.) to advance beyond the usual or proper limits, trespass

Epoch

(n.) a distinct period of time, era, age

Exotic

(adj.) foreign; charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual

Endow

(v.) to furnish, equip, provide with funds or some other desirable thing or quality

Enmity

(n.) hatred, ill-will

Foreboding

(n.) A warning or feeling that something bad will happen
(adj.) right by fear, ominous

Gratify

(v.) to please, satisfy; to indulge or humor

Gallantry

(n.) heroic courage; respect and courtesy; an act or statement marked by a high-level of courtesy

Heritage

(n.) an inheritance; a birthright

Irascible

(adj.) easily made angry, hot-tempered

Intrigue

(n.) crafty dealings, underhanded plotting
(v.) to form and carry out plots; to puzzle or excite the curiosity

Impunity

(n.) freedom from punishment

Impending

(adj., part.) about to happen, hanging over in a menacing way

Imperative

(adj.) necessary, urgent
(n.) A form of a verb expressing a command; that which is necessary or required

Juncture

(n.) a joining together; the point at which two things are joined; any important point in time

Menial

(adj.) lowly, humble, liking importance or dignity
(n.) A person who does the humble and unpleasant tasks

Mien

(n.) air, manner; appearance; expression

Mediate

(v.) to bring about an agreement between persons or groups, act as a go-between
(adj.) occupying a middle position; indirect, acting through an intermediary

Naive

(adj.) innocent, unsophisticated, showing lack of worldly knowledge and experience

Negate

(v.) to nullify, deny, bring to nothing

Nullify

(v.) to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out

Niche

(n.) a decorative recess in a wall; a suitable place or position for a person or thing

Obsess

(v.) to trouble, haunt, or fill the mind

Overbearing

(adj.) domineering, haughty, bullying ; overpowering, predominant

Outlandish

(adj.) strange, freakish, weird, foreign looking; out-of-the-way, geographically remote; exceeding reasonable limits

Parables

(n.) A short narrative designed to teach a moral lesson

Pivotal

(adj.) vitally important, essential

Personable

(adj.) pleasing in appearance or personality, attractive

Pallid

(adj.) pale, lacking color; weak and lifeless

Parry

(v.) to ward off, fend off, evade, avoid
(n.) a defensive movement in fencing and other sports

Proclaim

(v.) to declare publicly or officially

Prodigy

(n.) something wonderful or marvelous; an unusual feat; a child or young person with extraordinary ability or talent

Pert

(adj.) high-spirited; lively; bold, saucy; jaunty

Reciprocal

(adj.) shared; involving give-and-take between two persons or things; working in both directions
(n.)(math) a number that, one multiplied by another number, gives 1

Renown

(n.) fame, glory

Rote

(n.) unthinking routine or repetition, a fixed or mechanical way of doing something
(adj.) based on a mechanical routine

Strictures

(n.) A limitation or restriction; criticism; (medicine) a narrowing of a passage the body

Stance

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

Shiftless

(adj.) lazy, lacking in ambition and energy; inefficient

Tedious

(adj.) long and tiresome

Taint

(n.) a stain or spot; a mark of corruption or dishonor;
(v.) to stain or contaminate

Tractable

(adj.) easily managed, easy to deal with; easily wrought, malleable

Tawdry

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

Trepidation

(n.) fear, fright, trembling

Veritable

(adj.) actual, true, real

Vitality

(n.) strength, energy; the capacity to live and develop; the power to endure or survive

Vaunted

(adj.) much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way

Vex

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

Whimsical

(adj.) subject to our ideas, notions, or fancies; playful; unpredictable