Vocabulary Grade 7
Terms
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- to cripple, disable.
- maim
- to feel around hesitantly with hands.
- grope
- extremely nervous and easily frightened; shy or extremely cautious; unstable, undependable.
- skittish
- a high point of land extending into water.
- promontory
- that which follows, a result.
- sequel
- to make as small as possible, make the least of, make smaller than before.
- minimize
- elaborately decorated.
- ornate
- To bring together, collect, gather, especially for oneself.
- amass
- overcrowded, filled or occupied to excess.
- congested
- to make or force one's way by pushing or elbowing; to bump, shove, brush against.
- jostle
- lying face down
- prone
- To read thoroughly and carefully.
- Peruse
- a fortress that overlooks and protects a city.
- citadel
- in very great numbers.
- myriad
- a watch, especially at night; any period of watchful attention.
- vigil
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a change from one state or condition
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transition
- ridiculous and unprictable behavior or actions.
- antics
- preying on, plundering
- predatory
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to trouble, haunt or fill the mind.
- obsess
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to transport, transmit
- convey
- of or relating to a slave; behaving like or suitable slave or servant, menial spirit, objectively submissive
- servile
- related to the matter at hand.
- pertinent
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using or showing good judgement
- judicious
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freedom from punishment
- impunity
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a forewarning or foreboding of a future
- premonition
- to roll about in a lazy, clumsy or helpless way, to overindulge. a wet muddy, or dusty area used by animals or state of physical collapse
- wallow
- suitable, fitting, likely, quick to learn
- apt
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cordial, pleasantly cheerful or warm
- genial
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wash awa impurities, clean up, the process of getting rid of something or someone decisively.
- purge
- not able to be heard
- inaudible
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showy and flashy
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tawdry
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appearing true, reasonable
- plausible
- a pen name, name assumed by writer
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psuedonym
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hatred, ill-willed
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enmity
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a way of holding the body an attitude or position on an issue.
- stance
- to make unclear or dirty, destroy, of suffering, to march in single line or columns in narrow passage
- defile
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tirelessly, continuing with vigor
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unflagging
- capable of being grasped by the senses or mind.
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perceptible
- to end resistance, give up, surrender
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capitulate
- something wonderful or marvelous, an uneasy feat, a child or young person with extraordinary ability
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prodigy
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strength, energy, liveliness
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vitality
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to become filled to overflowin, to be present in large or vast quantities
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teem
- the setting, surroundings, environment
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milieu
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easily managed, easy to deal with, easily wrought, malleable
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tractable
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causing great misfortune
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calamitous
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fear, fight, trembling
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trepidation
- in line with accepted ideas or standards
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conventional
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an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true
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tenet
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to become used to, to cause to become used to
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habituate
- lazy, lacking in ambition and energy, inefficient
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shiftless