Lesson 8 Vocabulary (8th grade)

capable of being heard

• fastidious

• adept

• audible

• banter

a sudden sharp feeling of pain or distress

• pang

• deploy

• crucial

• grapple

highly skilled; expert

• precede

• facilitate

• capacious

• adept

arrange troops or equipment in a position for battle; to put into use

• deploy

• grapple

• adept

• decelerate

large in quantity; abundant

• capacious

• copious

• grapple

• fastidious

not steady; irregular

• azure

• adept

• fitful

• grapple

the color of a cloudless sky

• azure

• adept

• audible

• capacious

to go or come before in time, rank, or position

• fastidious

• decelerate

• adept

• precede

to struggle within close combat; to wrestle; to come to grips with

• copious

• deploy

• grapple

• facilitate

to exchange playful, teasing remarks

• pang

• banter

• audible

• precede