Parkland Vocab Grade Eight--Unit Eleven

promptness in response; cheerful readiness

• alacrity
• banter
• belated
• jaunty

to make calm, soothe; to relieve, satisfy, to yield to

• appease
• facetious
• genial
• delve

bold, adventurous, recklessly daring

• audacious
• niche
• belated
• muster

to exchange playful remarks, tease

• banter
• muster
• mendicant
• scapegoat

late, tardy

• belated
• xenophobia
• unison
• oust

to warm by rubbing; to feel annoyance

• chafe
• appease
• banter
• delve

to dig; to search deeply and thoroughly into

• delve
• chafe
• engross
• loiter

to occupy the complete attention of, absorb fully

• engross
• reckless
• oust
• facetious

humorous, not meant seriously

• facetious
• audacious
• niche
• reckless

cordial, pleasantly cheerful or warm

• genial
• reckless
• xenophobia
• unison