8th grade vocab 4/12

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief.

• sonnet

• sinister

• austerity

• abjure

self-denial, especially refraining from worldly pleasures.

• sonnet

• sinister

• austerity

• abjure

a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

• abjure

• austerity

• sinister

• sonnet

wicked, evil, or dishonorable

• sinister

• sonnet

• abjure

• austerity

small crude shelter used as a dwelling

• Hovel

• gumption

• Primeval

• malingerer

fortitude and determination

performance; to coordinate, organize

• hovel

• gumption

• primeval

• malingerer

having existed from the beginning

• hovel

• gumption

• primeval

• malingerer

someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity

• hovel

• gumption

• primeval

• malingerer