8th Grade Vocabulary List 17

Alleviate means:

• propogate rapidly

• make something less severe

• dedicated to a single cause

• showy, pretentious, or flashy

Ostentatious means:

• showy, pretentious, or flashy

• mysterious

• extremely careful about details

• vanishing quickly

Ubiquitous means:

• extremely painful

• present everywhere at the same time

• excruciatingly painful

• unclear

To exacerbate means to ___________ .

• make more severe or aggravate

• make better

• enumerate or list

• ease or lesson in severity

Pensive means __________ .

• occurring everywhere

• thoughtful or wistfully calm

• difficult to understand

• excessively focused on details

Discursive means _____________ .

• extremely painful

• excessively concerned with minor details

• jumping from topic to topic

• extremely severe or harmful

Evanescent means:

• well-defined

• vanishing quickly

• agonizingly painful

• very harmful or unpleasant

To enumerate means to ________ .

• pretentious in a showy way

• endanger

• list or count off systematically

• reflect on a diversity of styles

Excruciating means ___________ .

• excessively concerned with small details

• warning with especially bright colors

• showing careful attention to detail

• agonizingly painful

Fastidious means _____________ .

• reflecting different styles

• excessively concerned with detail

• aggravating, making worse

• vanishing quickly