8th Grade Chapter 1 Vocabulary

excursion

• result

• hope of achievement

• pleasure trip

• science of personal health and

  disease prevention

unintelligible

• not able to be understood

• questioning

• able to bend easily

• difficult to please

nibble

• to chew in small, quick bites

• to be affected by high heat

• to effect change

• to learn or know about something

aspiration

• discord

• conclusion reached about

  something

• hope of achievement

• small bite

intolerable

• doubting

• unbearable

• widely or commonly found

• very fussy

diagnosis

• science of personal health and

  disease prevention

• result

• short journey

• act of identifying a certain

  illness

gaunt

• thin and bony

• widely or commonly found

• able to bend easily

• not able to be understood

hygiene

• small bite

• pleasure trip

• conclusion reached about

  something

• science of personal health and

  disease prevention

lithe

• able to bend easily

• doubting

• beyond what is acceptable

• fastidious

prevalent

• not able to be understood

• widely or commonly found

• angular

• questioning