List 3- Words Every 8th Grader Should Know

Belligerent

• Supportive and nurturing.
• Eager to fight; hostile.

• Calm and peaceful.
• Friendly and welcoming.

Benign

• Beneficial and helpful
• Cancerous or malignant
• Harmful or dangerous
• kind or harmless

Ecstatic

• Mild disappointment
• A feeling of anger
• Great delight or happiness

• A state of confusion

Emaciated

• Overweight due to excessive eating

• Healthy and well-nourished individual

• Slightly underweight but fit and active

• Very thin from disease or hunger

Exploit

• To take advantage of a situation or resource.

• To enhance a situation or resource for personal gain.
• To ignore a situation or resource completely.
• To utilize resources efficiently and ethically.

Formidable

• Formidable means inspiring fear because of size.

• Formidable is a synonym for friendly.
• Formidable refers to a type of food.
• Formidable means easy to handle.

Haughty

• Confidently humble or modest.
• Arrogantly superior or disdainful.
• Eager to please and agreeable.
• Indifferent and apathetic.

Initiative

• A type of leadership style.
• A tool for managing time.
• A method for measuring success.
• The power to act before others do.

Monotonous

• Dynamic and engaging
• Bright and colorful
• Dull and repetitive
• Exciting and varied

Pervasive

• Limited or restricted
• Spreading in an unwanted group

• Every once in a while

• In a specific area where turtles live