8th Grade Vocabulary List 9

A long angry speech, usually very critical

• tirade

• malign

• inundate

• bogus

Angry, bad tempered, rude

• tirade

• surly

• malign

• pensive

Of poor quality; characterized by inferior workmaship

• bogus

• apex

• pensive

• shoddy

thoughtful; melancholy

• bogus

• surly

• pensive

• obstreperous

to flood, overflow; to overwhelm by numbers or size

• assimilate

• inundate

• bogus

• malign

to absorb fully or make one's own; to adopt as one's own; to adapt fully

• malign

• bogus

• assimilate

• apex

The time between; temporary, coming between two points in time

• metropolis

• momentous

• shoddy

• interim

-bio

• time

• life

• universe, order

-chron, -chrono

• time

• life

• universe, order

-cosm, -cosmo

• time

• life

• universe, order