Vocabulary Quiz for Grade 8

What is the term for something given or received as an equivalent for services, debt, loss, or injury?

• Conceive

• Compensation

• Condole

• Credulity

Which word means to form a notion or idea of something; to imagine?

• Conceive

• Condole

• Derision

• Grimace

What does it mean to express sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow or grief?

• Credulity

• Condole

• Hypocritical

• Intensify

What is the term for a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true?

• Derision

• Credulity

• Grimace

• Justify

Which word describes contemptuous ridicule or mockery?

• Derision

• Parallel

• Peril

• Resignation

What is a facial expression that indicates disapproval or pain?

• Hypocritical

• Grimace

• Intensify

• Vex

What does it mean to behave in a way that suggests one has higher standards than is the case?

• Hypocritical

• Intensify

• Justify

• Stifle

Which word means to make something more acute or to strengthen it?

• Parallel

• Intensify

• Peril

• Resignation

What does it mean to show that an act or statement is just or right?

• Justify

• Stifle

• Vehemently

• Vex

Which term describes lines that extend in the same direction and never converge or diverge?

• Peril

• Parallel

• Resignation

• Technique