Parkland Vocab Grade Eight--Unit Ten

embarrassed, ashamed, or nonplussed

• abashed
• avowed
• disarming
• illustrious

a group of instruments, etc., intended for a specific use

• apparatus
• finesse
• lament
• rumble

to declare or state as truth, maintain or defend

• assert
• bestow
• beckon
• compel

declared openly and without shame, acknowledged

• avowed
• willful
• sophisicated
• rebellious

to signal, summon, or direct by a gesture of the head/hand

• beckon
• ostracize
• naïve
• merge

to give as a gift; to provide with lodgings

• bestow
• malinger
• lament
• gratify

to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure

• compel
• finesse
• disarming
• bestow

charming, tending to soften unfriendliness or suspicion

• disarming
• beckon
• avowed
• assert

brilliantly outstanding because of dignity or achievements

• illustrious
• apparatus
• abashed
• disarming

a delicate skill; to accomplish something by cleverness

• finesse
• willful
• rumble
• rebellious