9th Grade vocabulary-2018

a disagreement

• precise

• fuse

• dissent

• discretion

To change something so as to make it less true; to misrepresent

• modify
• mobilize
• distort
• agile

an activity that diverts the mind from tedious or serious concerns

• diversion
• incredulous
• catastrophe

great happiness and exhilaration

• elation
• persisted
• gallows
• vanity

to draw forth

• elicit
• terminate
• methodical
• adjacent

to escape or avoid someone or something by being quick or clever

• adamant

• elude

• oversight

• chastise

• unruly

to increase or intensify; worsen

• elilcit
• escalate
• acclaim
• exploit

To make a judgement/to make a decision

• relevant

• precise

• evaluate

• credible

to aggravate or make worse

• alleviate

• extol

• amass

• exacerbate

excerpt

• a passage from a book

• a person who knows

• a fancy dinner

• a famous actor