8th Vocabulary Unit 8

Abut

• to join at one end or be next to
• tireless, continuing with vigor
• to plunge straight down
• puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic

Attire

• to dress, adorn, or bedeck
• self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain
• a very close friend, chum, buddy
• puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic

Avail

• capable of being grasped by the senses or mind
• use, benefit, or value
• to pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily
• to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out

Crony

• puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic
• hatred, ill-will
• to join at one end or be next to
• a very close friend, chum, buddy

Cryptic

• puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic
• thin and bony, starved looking
• a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials
• very earnest, emotional, passionate

Divergent

• departing from convention, deviant
• a very close friend, chum, buddy
• to plunge straight down
• to join at one end or be next to

Enmity

• hatred, ill-will
• an agent, substitute
• to join at one end or be next to
• departing from convention, deviant

Fervent

• to declare publicly or officially
• to pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily
• a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials
• very earnest, emotional, passionate

Gaunt

• a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials
• thin and bony, starved looking
• a period of activity
• a very close friend, chum, buddy

Infiltrate

• capable of being grasped by the senses or mind
• to pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily
• self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain
• a period of activity