Vocabulary 7th grade

Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

• Teeter

• Rambunctious

• Torpor

Determined by chance or impulse rather than necessity (adj)

• Teeter

• Torpor

• Inertia

• Whimsical

The tendency of something to stay in rest or motion

• whimsical

• Inertia

• Scrupulous

• Mortify

Cause to feel shame (v)

• Whimsical

• Teeter

• Mortify

• Scrupulous

An unusually gifted or intelligent person

• Whimsical

• Disparaged

• Entity

• Prodigy

that which is perceived to have its own distinct existence. (N)

• Entity

• Inertia

• Stagnant

• Exclusive

Noisy and lacking in restraint or dicipline

• Torpor

• Rambunctious

• Entity

• Squander

State of motor and mental inactivity

• Inertia

• Entity

• Torpor

• Mortify

Adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort

• Rambunctious

• Mortify

• Scrupulous

• Disparage

Express a negative opinion of

• Disparage

• Mortify

• Antithesis

• Hostile