8th Grade Vocabulary Words - List 12
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| Word | Definition | Practice Sentence | Synonyms | Antonyms | Part of Speech Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| defendant | A person or organization being sued or accused in a court of law. | The jury found the defendant not guilty of the crime. | accused | Noun | |
| diatribe | An angry and bitter verbal attack on something or someone. | He launched into a heated diatribe against the government's policies. | tirade, rant, jeremaid | Noun | |
| fabulated | To tell an invented story or one that is elaborated with fantasy. | He fabulated a story about his adventures in the Amazon. | Verb | ||
| lamentable | That is to be regretted and deplorably bad. | Some see the waste problem in the world's oceans as lamentable. | tragic, grievous, troublesome | fortunate, encouraging, gratifying | Adjective |
| yeilding | To produce or bring forth as a result of cultivation. | The fields are yeilding more crops this year due to the heavy rain. | bear, return, provide | Verb | |
| unconscionable | Extremely unreasonable or not morally right. | The business agreement was extraordinarily uneven and unconscionable. | outrageous, preposterous, unethical | reasonable, sensible, ethical | Adjective |
| inimical | Marked by unfriendliness and opposition. | The politican recieved an inimical response to his unpopular proposal | negative, hostile, averse | sympathetic, amiable, friendly | Adjective |
| kinetics | The physical mechanisms by which physical or chemical changes occur. | The engineer studied the kinetics of the machine to perfect its performance. | Noun | ||
| wrenched | To pull or twist with violent movement. | She wrenched the pencil out of his hand. | tugged, wringed, yanked | Verb | |
| zenith | The highest point. | The sun was at its zenith in the sky. | pinnacle, apex, peak | bottom, base, foot | Noun |
| commensurate | Corresponding to in amount or degree. | His salary was commensurate with his experience and skills. | proportional, comparable, correlative | disproportionate, asymmetric, lopsided | Adjective |
| deign | To do something that one consider's beneath their own dignity. | He would not deign to answer the preposterous question. | stoop, degrade, humiliate | Verb | |
| knavish | Dishonest or misleading. | We cannot trust her after her knavish acts. | arrant, fraudulent, decietful | noble, honest, honorable | Adjective |
| enmity | A typically mutual state of ill-will and hostility. | The two nations had a long history of enmity. | animosity, hatred, grudge | amity, friendship, neighborliness | Adjective |
| ingenuous | Showing innocense or lack of worldly knowledge. | She was ingenuous and did not know of the con men from the city. | naive, inexperienced, unsuspecting | experienced, skeptical, incredulous | Adjective |
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