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Grade 8 Defining Words
The definition of the word arrogant is:
  1. careful and wise
  2. honest to the point of rudeness
  3. constant
  4. overly proud and vain
Grade 8 Defining Words
Which of the following would someone most likely DEFINE?
  1. A phone
  2. A shout
  3. A pet turtle
  4. A vocabulary word
Grade 8 Defining Words
The ability to imagine what someone else is feeling:
  1. sympathy
  2. passive
  3. infer
  4. empathy
Grade 8 Defining Words
To figure out based on evidence:
  1. to connect
  2. to predict
  3. to visualize
  4. to infer
Grade 8 Defining Words CCSS: CCRA.L.4, L.8.4
lie or pretend to be something you're not
  1. concotion
  2. brandish
  3. bluff
  4. imperious
Grade 8 Defining Words
What is peculiar?
  1. looked at angrily
  2. odd; unusual
  3. extremely old
  4. happens every year; yearly
Grade 8 Defining Words
Which word means "a meeting"?
  1. party
  2. encounter
  3. discussion
  4. none of the above
Grade 8 Defining Words
Renown
  1. To take credit for someone else's work
  2. Complex; Difficult
  3. To cheat or defraud
  4. Fame
Grade 8 Defining Words CCSS: CCRA.L.4, L.8.4
unsteady or go back and forth
  1. stamina
  2. outlandish
  3. waver
  4. weather
Grade 8 Defining Words
fondness
  1. a pipe in or near the street that provides water, especially for putting out fires.
  2. a feeling or showing of love or friendship; strongly felt; having a liking for or love of someone or something.
  3. something that happens as a result of a particular action or set of conditions.
  4. the condition of being conscious; the normal state of being awake and able to understand what is happening around you.
Grade 8 Defining Words
The definition of the word apprehensive is:
  1. honest to the point of bluntness
  2. fearful
  3. very great
  4. obvious
Grade 8 Defining Words CCSS: CCRA.L.4, L.8.4
give a spoken or written account
  1. author
  2. narrate
  3. encourage
  4. obscure
Grade 8 Defining Words CCSS: CCRA.L.4, L.8.4
about to occur
  1. impending
  2. barricade
  3. imperious
  4. persistent
Grade 8 Defining Words CCSS: CCRA.L.4, L.8.4, L.8.4d
portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious
  1. grovel
  2. boasting
  3. abomination
  4. ominous
Grade 8 Defining Words
What does it mean "to fret?"
  1. skillful
  2. worry
  3. eager to fight
  4. talent or ability
Grade 8 Defining Words CCSS: CCRA.L.4, L.8.4, L.8.4d
to appear
  1. meticulous
  2. malleable
  3. materialize
  4. managerial
Grade 8 Defining Words
dehydrated
  1. the state in which a large amount of water has been lost or removed from the body or from food.
  2. to add water or moisture to something; to supply something with water.
  3. operated by the pressure of a fluid.
  4. the act of maintaining something or someone; the act of causing something to exist or continue without changing; the act of providing support for someone or something.
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