8th grade academic words

abhor

• regard with disgust or hatred

• lack of feeling or emotion

• not identified

• withdraw from social relations as a punishment or protest

assimilate

• accepted as true with no proof

• to differ

• absorb into a culture

• hatred towards someone

abrasive

• to build

• to describe

• a collection of literary pieces

• a substance capable of polishing or cleaning a hard surface by rubbing and grinding

amiss

• no government

• not quite right; out of place

• to start

• to arrest or seize

ambiguous

• open to more than one interpretation

• to start

• to make something happen

• to arrest or seize

anarchy

• hatred towards someone

• to confirm or give support

• a state of disorder; no government

• absorb into culture

apathy

• very strange or unusual

• feeling emotion

• lack of feeling or emotion

• able to achieve something

anthology

• a collection of literary pieces of art or music

• to start

• strange or unusual

• not quite right; out of place

apprehend

• to arrest or seize

• ability to achieve something

• not quite right

• to exclude or prohibit

alternative

• to exclude or prohibit

• not quite right; out of place

• one or more things available as a possibility

• to start