McNeill JH Vocab 23-24

Are you feeling really happy and enthusiastic about something? Then you are _____.

• poised

• infuriated

• exuberant

When the bell rings on the last day of school before Christmas vacation, most students and teachers are exuberant.

Exuberant means...

• angry

• bummed

• very excited

______ is an adjective that simply means alert and awake.

• conscious

• poised

• devastated

If you fall from a tree and smack your head on the side of the wheelbarrow, there's a good chance you won't be conscious afterward.

Conscious means...

• dead

• alert and aware

• asleep and unaware

A ______ is something that belongs to you.

• situation

• possession

• dawdle

If you've got a special rubber ducky, it may even be your prized possession.

Possession means...

• something you own or control

• something you don't care about

• something you have borrowed

If a storm devastates your town, it will take a long time to clean it up.

Devastate means...

• to cry

• to make better

• to ruin or destroy

To _____ is to cause destruction to or overwhelm.

• connotation

• dawdle

• devastate

_____ are walls, either physical or metaphorical, that block movement or freedom.

• situations

• barriers

• connotations

The club obviously had built a social barrier, barring my acceptance into it.

Barrier means...

• something that blocks

• something that accepts

• something that doesn't care