100 Words Middle Schoolers Need to Know List 1

What does the word adversary mean?

• someone who offers opposition
• in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
• a barrier to impede the advance of an enemy
• a tortuous and twisted shape or position

What does the word apprehensive mean?

• in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
• a barrier to impede the advance of an enemy
• expel by official decree
• complete and confident self-assurance

What does the word attentive mean?

• someone who offers opposition
• expel, as if by official decree
• complete and confident self-assurance :
• taking heed

What does the word barricade mean?

• a high steep bank
• slightly salty
• a barrier to impede the advance of an enemy
• inherent ability

What does the word aplomb mean?

• complete and confident self-assurance
• expel by official decree
• poise
• inherent ability

What does the word aptitude mean?

• slightly salty
• inherent ability
• complete and confident self-assurance :
• taking heed

What does the word banish mean?

• taking heed
• a high steep bank
• expel, as if by official decree
• slightly salty

What does the word bluff mean?

• a high steep bank
• a barrier to impede the advance of an enemy

• taking heed
• someone who offers opposition

Answer explanation

What are bluffs in geography?

A bluff is defined as a steep shoreline slope formed in sediment (loose material such as clay, sand, and gravel) that has three feet or more of vertical elevation just above the high tide line. Cliffs or slopes in bedrock (ledge) surfaces are not bluffs and are not subject to significant erosion in a century or more.

What does the word brackish mean?

• expel by official decree
• slightly salty
• someone who offers opposition
• taking heed

Answer explanation

What does the word circumference mean?

• a barrier to impede the advance of an enemy
• a high steep bank
• inherent ability
• the length of the closed curve of a circle

Answer explanation

the outer boundary, especially of a circular area; perimeter: the circumference of a circle.