8th Grade Vocab 4

This word means "Showing doubt or disbelief."

• skeptically

• mollified

• apprehensive

• precede

If someone is mollified by the actions of another, how are they feeling?

• anxious

• complete

• uneasy

• pacified

Something occurring that has a sense of foreboding or appearing in a threatening way could be described as occurring...

• ominously

• anonymously

• complacently

• plaintively

Precede means

• occurring before or previously

• happening after the fact

• In a way that is complete

• going underneath

If someone makes a derogatory comment, that comment is

• twisted out of shape

• showing doubt or disbelief

• detracting or disparaging

• ignorant

A person acting in a plaintive way is acting

• Mournfully or sorrowfully

• with great anger

• with unease or anxiousness

• joyfully or cheerily

A word that means "in a self-satisfied manner" is

• complacently

• contoured

• effaciously

• wryly

A gymnast who contours themselves as a part of their routine is doing what?

• Twisting themselves into different shapes

• Lifting themselves off the ground

• Spinning in the air delicately

• Dancing in a clever manner

A profound quiet is a quiet that is...

• complete or from the depths of its being

• foreboding or frightening

• deep or complicated

• honest and true

Complacently means...

• ...In a manner that is self-satisfied

• ...distractedly or disparagingly

• ...anxiously

• ...inconsiderately