8th Grade Final Exam Vocabulary

acting or working for self-gain only

• mercenary

• falter

• negate

• wry

pale, lacking color

• obliterate

• pallid

• attest

• capacious

to irritate, annoy, or anger

• deface

• mercenary

• forlorn

• exasperate

to search or examine thoroughly

• attest

• pallid

• ransack

• naive

involving give-and-take between two persons or things

• reciprocal

• tedious

• ruse

• rote

long and tiresome

• crusade

• wry

• pithy

• tedious

unthinking routine, a fixed or mechanical way of doing something

• abdicate

• rote

• armistice

• solvent

innocent, unsophisticated, showing lack of worldly knowledge and experience

• naive

• capacious

• forlorn

• crusade

To blot out completely, destroy utterly

• armistice

• impediment

• obliterate

• falter

to hesitate, stumble, lose courage

• wry

• pithy

• naive

• falter