8th Grade Vocabulary Week 27

involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring.

• arduous
• breach
• eminent
• impoverished

based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

• arbitrary
• credible
• expulsion
• reprieve

make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defense).

• breach
• eminent
• impoverished
• supplant

able to be believed; convincing.

• credible
• expulsion
• reprieve
• versatile

(of a person) famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession.

• eminent
• impoverished
• supplant
• malign

the process of forcing someone to leave a place.

• expulsion
• reprieve
• versatile
• prototype

make (a person or area) poor.

• impoverish
• supplant
• malign
• arduous

a cancellation or postponement of a punishment.

• reprieve
• versatile
• prototype
• arbitrary

supersede and replace.

• supplant
• malign
• arduous
• breach

speak about (someone) in a spitefully critical manner.

• malign
• arduous
• breach
• eminent