8th Grade English Vocab

Defenestrate

To throw someone/something out of a window

Immolate

To destroy by burning; To sacrifice in flame

Mollify

To make someone feel better; To ease discomfort

Vilify

To portray someone as a villain

Emulate

To imitate someone out of respect

Ambulate

To walk

Interrogate

To question someone formally

Amputate

To cut off a limb

Indicate

To show or point out

Behoove

To benefit

Undulate

To move in a wavelike motion

Shirk

To avoid a task or obligation

Scald

To burn with water or steam

Scold

To criticize sharply

Spelunk

To explore caves

Squander

To spend foolishly; To Waste

Emit

To release; to give off

Omit

To leave out

Oscillate

To move back and forth

Boondoggle

To waste time with trivial tasks

Commence

To begin

Plummet

To fall rapidly

Allot

To distribute in portions

Pilfer

To steal

Incarcerate

To put someone in jail

Emancipate

To set free

Assert

To state strongly

Extricate

To remove from entanglements

Dilute

To weaken by adding water

Delude

To mislead

Embark

To set out on a journey

Perspire

To sweat

Aspire

To strive; To pursue a goal

Defer

1. To postpone

2. To yield to someone else

Inundate

To flood or overwhelm

Bolster

To strengthen; To support

Beckon

To call forth; To summon

Perish

To die

Exonerate

To declare innocent

Implicate

To suggest someone is guilty of a crime

Obfuscate

To make something unnecessarily confusing

Articulate

To put into words

Enunciate

To pronounce clearly

Impede

To inhibit a process

Reside

To live in a place

Preside

To rule over; To govern

Adhere

To stick to something

Inhibit

To impede; To form an obstacle

Prohibit

To ban a practice

Secede

To formally withdraw

Jeer

To ridicule

Elude

To avoid capture

Allude

To refer to indirectly

Sift

To sort through

Employ

To put to work; To use

Deploy

To position or arrange; To utilize.

Atrophy

To become smaller/weaker through lack of use

Abridge

To shorten

Wither

To dry out and die

Dither

To struggle to make a decision

Agitate

To stir or mix up

Aggravate

To make worse

Loiter

To stand around in public doing nothing

Antagonize

To provoke; to cause someone to become hostile

Jostle

To bump into

Sequester

To hide away; To remove

Evoke

To call forth an image or a feeling

Revoke

To take back

Convert

To change something into something else

Invert

To turn upside down or inside out

Revert

To return to a previous state of being

Covet

To desire something that is not yours

Sow

To plant seeds in the ground

Reap

To collect a harvest

Conceal

To hide something

Perplex

To confuse

Deface

To damage property; To vandalize

Conspire

To plan together secretly

Eradicate

To wipe out completely

Fabricate

To make or create