8th Grade Vocabulary #2

Having to do with the sky or heavens.

• celestial

• clarification

• embezzle

• encore

The act of making clear or understandable; an explanation

• epic

• evade

• clarification

• malady

To steal money by falsifying records

• heartrending

• embezzle

• lethargic

• evade

an additional performance called for by the audience

• malady

• lethargic

• celestial

• encore

A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds.

• evade

• heartrending

• epic

• pessimism

To elude or avoid by cunning; to flee from a pursuer

• clarification

• embezzle

• evade

• lethargic

Causing mental pain or grief

• lethargic

• encore

• epic

• heartrending

Acting in an indifferent, slow, or sluggish manner

• celestial

• lethargic

• malady

• epic

A sickness, illness, disease, or disorder

• malady

• pessimism

• evade

• lethargic

Belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess

• evade

• epic

• heartrending

• pessimism