8th Grade Vocabulary List 17

Alleviate means:

• propogate rapidly

• make something less severe

• dedicated to a single cause

• showy, pretentious, or flashy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Ostentatious means:

• showy, pretentious, or flashy

• mysterious

• extremely careful about details

• vanishing quickly

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Ubiquitous means:

• extremely painful

• present everywhere at the same time

• excruciatingly painful

• unclear

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

To exacerbate means to ___________ .

• make more severe or aggravate

• make better

• enumerate or list

• ease or lesson in severity

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Pensive means __________ .

• occurring everywhere

• thoughtful or wistfully calm

• difficult to understand

• excessively focused on details

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Discursive means _____________ .

• extremely painful

• excessively concerned with minor details

• jumping from topic to topic

• extremely severe or harmful

Evanescent means:

• well-defined

• vanishing quickly

• agonizingly painful

• very harmful or unpleasant

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

To enumerate means to ________ .

• pretentious in a showy way

• endanger

• list or count off systematically

• reflect on a diversity of styles

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Excruciating means ___________ .

• excessively concerned with small details

• warning with especially bright colors

• showing careful attention to detail

• agonizingly painful

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Fastidious means _____________ .

• reflecting different styles

• excessively concerned with detail

• aggravating, making worse

• vanishing quickly

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E