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Vocabulary for 7th Grade Language Arts
Question | Answer |
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What is the Definition for: Affect | To have an influence on or effect a change in something |
What is the Definition for: Element | A part or aspect of something |
What is the Definition for: Ensure | To make sure or certain |
What is the Definition for: Participate | To be active and involved in something or to share in something |
What is the Definition for: Specify | To state exactly or in detail what you want or need |
What is the Definition for: Aspect | A characteristic or feature of something |
What is the Definition for: Cultural | Of or relating to culture or cultivation |
What is the Definition for: Evaluate | To examine something carefully to its value of worth |
What is the Definition for: Resource | Something that can be used for support or help |
What is the Definition for: Text | A literary work that is regarded as an object of critical analysis |
What is the Definition for: Abnormal | Not typical, usual or regular |
What is the Definition for: Feature | A prominent or distinctive part, quality or characteristic |
What is the Definition for: Focus | To direct toward a specific point or purpose |
What is the Definition for: Perceive | To become aware of something directly through any of the senses |
What is the Definition for: Task | An assignment or work done as part of one's duties |
What is the Definition for: Interact | To act upon each other |
What is the Definition for: Potential | Capable of doing or being something |
What is the Definition for: Specify | To state exactly or in detail what you want or need |
What is the Definition for: Stress | To put emphasis on something |
What is the Definition for: Valid | Convincing or having a sound reason for something |
What is the Definition for: Moderate | Something kept within a certain limit |
What is the Definition for: Prowess | The strength and courage someone has |
What is the Definition for: Frantic | Do something quickly and nervously |
What is the Definition for: Anxiety | A worried and uneasy feeling |
What is the Definition for: Obstinate | Stubborn and unyeilding |
What is the Definition for: Inundate | To give a huge amount of something |
What is the Definition for: Precaution | An action taken to avoid possible danger |
What is the Definition for: Sarcasm | Words that mean the opposite of what you really want to say |
What is the Definition for: Tacit | Understood without being directly stated |
What is the Definition for: Ebullience | Enthusiastic expressions of thoughts or feelings |
What is the Definition for: Elude | Escape either physically or mentally |
What is the Definition for: Contemptuous | Without respect with a bitter attitude |
What is the Definition for: Implore | The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
What is the Definition for: Inscrutable | Difficult to understand |
What is the Definition for: Tumult | Commotion of a great crowd; disorder |
What is the Definition for: Tirade | A long angry or violent speech |
What is the Definition for: Blatant | Very obvious |
What is the Definition for: Malevolent | Having an ill will or wishing harm to others |
What is the Definition for: Ludicrous | Obviously absurd; foolish |
What is the Definition for: Cynic | A person who has negative opinions about other people and what they do |
What is the Definition for: Overt | Something that is obvious |
What is the Definition for: Covert | Something done secretively |
What is the Definition for: Maroon | To abandon or leave someone in a place that is hard to get away from. |
What is the Definition for: Judicious | Characterized by sound judgment |
What is the Definition for: Recrimination | Accusing in return after someone has accused you |
What is the Definition for: Introspective | An examination of one's own thoughts and feelings |
What is the Definition for: Unconscious | Not knowing or perceiving |
What is the Definition for: Shrew | An ill-tempered angry woman |
What is the Definition for: Impaired | Disabled or functionally defective |
What is the Definition for: Amnesia | Loss of memory due usually to brain injury |
What is the Definition for: Adroit | Quick or skillful or adept in action or though |
What is the Definition for: Coalesce | Fuse or cause to come together |
What is the Definition for: Cynical | Believing the worst of human nature and motives |
What is the Definition for: Deleterious | Harmful to living things |
What is the Definition for: Euphemism | An inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one |
What is the Definition for: Juxtapose | Place side by side |
What is the Definition for: Lethargic | Deficient in alertness or activity |
What is the Definition for: Paradoxical | Seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true |
What is the Definition for: Platitude | A trite or obvious remark |
What is the Definition for: Repress | Conceal or hide |
What is the Definition for: Cower | Crouch or curl up |
What is the Definition for: Waver | Pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness |
What is the Definition for: Usurp | Seize and take control without authority |
What is the Definition for: Lethal | Deadly |
What is the Definition for: Docile | Easily handled or managed |
What is the Definition for: Perplex | Be a mystery or bewildering to |
What is the Definition for: Symbiosis | Relationship between two living things that benefit them both |
What is the Definition for: Decompose | Decay or rotting away |
What is the Definition for: Pronounced | Observable, evident |
What is the Definition for: Epicurean | Related to the enjoyment of food |
What is the Definition for: Toxicology | The study of poisons |
What is the Definition for: Meager | A small amount or quantity |