Vocabulary 7th Grade STUDY TIME!

Tormenting or teasing with the sight or promise of something unobtainable

• mesmerized

• jostling

• catechism

• tantalizing

The maintaining of something or someone in life; also, nourishment

• sustenance

• austerity

• rickshaw

• fermentation

To speak two languages fluently or with ease

• begrudge

• bilingual

• ferocity

• oblivious

To be envious of the good things others have or enjoy; also, to give reluctantly

• extolled

• catechism

• begrudge

• mantra

To breathe out; also, to give off vapor or fumes

• exhalation

• extolled

• mesmerized

• deftly

The quality of having a sense of superiority; to be full of self-importance

• austerity

• communal

• curt

• arrogance

To be rudely brief

• indiscriminately

• arrogance

• curt

• rickshaw

To push, elbow, or bump against (someone) roughly, typically in a crowd.

• jostling

• tantalizing

• exhalation

• fermentation

A statement or word repeated frequently, sometimes to aid in concentration or mediation

• catechism

• begrudge

• mantra

• curt

To hold the attention of (someone) to the exclusion of all else or so as to transfix them

• ferocity

• mesmerized

• deftly

• communal