8th Grade Vocabulary Week 12

Mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together.

• malinger
• camaraderie
• fatuous
• treacherous

Alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive.

• vacillate
• fastidious
• fatuous
• burnish

Not pleasant to taste.

• unpalatable
• contemporary
• pellucid
• inexorable

Belonging to or occurring in the present.

• contemporary
• punative
• reprobate
• diminutive

Hazardous because of presenting hidden or unpredictable dangers.

• punative
• treacherous
• emigrate
• palliate

Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.

• fastidious
• punative
• camaraderie
• spurious

harsh discordance of sound; dissonance:
a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds

• punative
• cacophony
• foppish
• craving

Exaggerate or feign illness in order to escape duty or work.

• malinger
• camaraderie
• intransigent
• reprobate

An unprincipled person (often used humorously or affectionately).

• craving
• reprobate
• emigrate
• pellucid

Inflicting or intended as punishment.

• punative
• fastidious
• fatuous
• cacophony