Vocabulary unit 14, 8th grade

To make stronger, larger, greater, louder

• amplify

• estrange

• gratify

• obliterate

A person who sells something

• vendor

• niche

• solvent

• epoch

A temporary peace, halt in fighting

• epoch

• kindred

• armistice

• niche

long and tiresome

• tedious

• solvent

• ramshackle

• naive

Haughty, too convinced of one’s own importance

• bland

• tedious

• arrogant

• solvent

Able to meet one’s financial obligations; having the power to dissolve other substances; a liquid used to dissolve other substances; something that solves, explains, eliminates, or softens

• bland

• ramshackle

• bland

• solvent

Gentle, soothing, mild; lacking interest or taste

• tedious

• ramshackle

• arrogant

• bland

Unthinking routine or repetition, a fixed or mechanical way of doing something; based on a mechanical routine

• rote

• armistice

• epoch

• kindred

To deny interest in or connection with; to give up all claim to

• disclaim

• estrange

• gratify

• obliterate

To search or examine thoroughly; to rob, plunder

• ransack

• obliterate

• gratify

• estrange