8th Grade Comprehensive

Representing the best or 

highest level.

• Elite

• Canopy

• Travail

• Aristocrat

Not friendly; cool or distant

• Apprehensive

• Aloof

• Benign

• Disposition

A wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area or a landslide.

• Reformatory

• Throng

• Embankment

• Chime

In a way that shows grim persistence.

• Infringe

• Disquieting

• Jittery

• Doggedly

Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action; unwilling

• Obstinate

• Ravine

• Aptitude

• Primitive

Feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed; not displaying anxiety, interest, or enthusiasm

• Clad

• Nonchalant

• Incarcerate

• Sullen

A person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance.

• Elude

• Calamity

• Ego

• Asset

Not able to be understood.

• Hue

• Thicket

• Conciliate

• Unfathomable

To attack someone physically or emotionally.

• Assail

• Constable

• Interlace

• Gravitate

In a way that shows great attention to detail; very thoroughly

• Chortled

• Meticulously

• Ignominious

• Jaunty