8th Vocabulary test 1-9

Churlish

• to exclude from a group, banish, send away
• hatred, ill-will
• apathetic
• lacking politeness or good manners

Citadel

• bold, adventurous, recklessly daring
• any strong or commanding place
• to declare legally invalid or void
• to declare publicly or officially

Decree

• use, benefit, or value
• to declare or state as truth, maintain or defend, put forward forcefully
• to display in a conceited, offensive way
• an order having the force of law

Discordant

• embarrassed, ashamed, or nonplussed
• to exclude from a group, banish, send away
• withdrawn, standing apart from others by choice
• lacking in harmony

Grope

• Filled with amazement, disgust, fear, or terror
• to search blindly and uncertainly
• a belief, principle, or teaching
• avoiding waste and luxury

Preclude

• departing from convention, deviant
• thin and bony, starved looking
• to make impossible, prevent, shut out
• to introduce or cause to be taken in

Vigil

• to read thoroughly and carefully
• an agent, substitute
• to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out
• any period of watchful attention

Antics

• declared openly and without shame
• to plunge straight down
• a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials
• ridiculous and unpredictable behavior or actions

Avowed

• puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic
• declared openly and without shame
• to exclude from a group, banish, send away
• to mutilate

Bountiful

• to assemble
• giving freely
• to remove, drive out of a position or place
• ridiculous and unpredictable behavior or actions