8th Grade Unit 12 Vocabulary Test

Define deface

• to injure or destroy

• lack of seriousness or earnestness

• to give as a gift

• roomy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Define abdicate

• vitally important

• a false notion or belief

• to resign, to give up an office

• to forbid to enter or leave

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Define capacious

• able to hold much

• able to burn or eat way by chemical action

• to injure or destroy

• to fill with disgust

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Define embargo

• to resign, disown

• a false notion or belief

• an order forbidding the trade in or movement if goods

• an action to designed to confuse

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Define voracious

• easily managed

• greedy, ravenous, excessively eager

• to become filled to overflowing

• a strong movement to advance a cause

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

synonym: confer, lodge, put up

• crusade

• bestow

• abdicate

• negate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

synonym: misconception, error

• levity

• pivotal

• fallacy

• caustic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

synonym: pauper

• embargo

• mendicant

• ruse

• tractable

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

synonym: cancel, invalidate, annul

• negate

• fallacy

• nauseate

• teem

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

antonym: donor, benefactor, contributor

• tenet

• ruse

• recipient

• ungainly

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A