Middle School Vocabulary

succeeded

• achieved a desired result

• failed to meet expectations

• attempted without success

• achieved a temporary goal

procrastinate

• to delay or postpone action

• to act quickly and decisively

• to ignore responsibilities

• to plan ahead and organize tasks

adversary

• a friend or ally

• an opponent or enemy

• a neutral party

• a mentor or guide

disruption

• a disturbance that interrupts an event, activity, or process

• a method of improving efficiency

• a type of communication error

• a strategy for conflict resolution

Mitigate

• to make worse or more difficult

• to make better or more tolerable

• to ignore or overlook

• to complicate or confuse

exaggerate

• to represent something as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is

• to make something smaller or less significant than it is

• to describe something in a neutral manner without embellishment

• to present facts in a misleading way without any exaggeration

exacerbate

• to improve a situation or feeling

• to make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse

• to ignore a problem or situation

• to analyze a problem thoroughly

desired

• wished for or wanted

• to be avoided

• to be ignored

• to be discovered

apprehensive

• nervous

• excited

• confident

• happy

correct

• right or accurate

• wrong or incorrect

• ambiguous or unclear

• false or misleading