7th - Grade Vocabulary Unit 1

Lacking change, variety or excitement

• hurtle

• humdrum

• barren

Close to: NEARBY

• Bengals

• alight

• insinuate

• adjacent

To move with or as with great speed and a rushing noise

• hurtle

• disrupt

• humdrum

A family or group that maintains power for several generations

• alight

• dynasty

• foretaste

To convey by indirect means: HINT

• alight

• foretaste

• insinuate

Producing no offspring: CHILDLESS; lacking vegetation

• barren

• germinate

• disrupt

An advanced taste or realization

• germinate

• foretaste

• alight

To descend and settle

• alight

• germinate

• hurtle

To interrupt or impede the usual course of harmony

• germinate

• insinuate

• disrupt

To begin to cause or grow

• insinuate

• germinate

• barren