Parkland Vocab Grade Eight--Unit Seven

frighten or overawe (someone)

• intimidate
• preoccupy
• ransack
• pulverize

to make valueless, take away all force or effect

• invalidate
• ransack
• regale
• intimidate

with one side lower or smaller than the other

• lopsided
• pithy
• prevalent
• rote

to cripple, disable, injure, mar, disfigure, mutilate

• maim
• nullify
• obliterate
• purge

to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out

• nullify
• preoccupy
• pulverize
• regale

to blot out completely, destroy utterly

• obliterate
• intimidate
• invalidate
• ransack

a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object that leads to a desire to avoid it

• phobia
• prodigal
• purge
• rote

short but full of meaning

• pithy
• staid
• lopsided
• rampant

to absorb or engross to the exclusion of other things

• preoccupy
• staid
• rampant
• rote

widespread

• prevalent
• lopsided
• maim
• rote