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College Vocabulary · Grade 8

Grade 8 College Vocabulary

35 weeks · 700 words. Four words a day, Monday to Friday, drawn from the week's reading, the booklist and the King James Bible, with a Friday quiz.

  1. Week 1: portentous, fabulous, morass, antiquity, indulgence…
  2. Week 2: ascribe, surpass, eclipse, invidious, begrudge…
  3. Week 3: vicissitude, predilection, immutable, inclination, magnitude…
  4. Week 4: battered, biographer, preface, restraint, insidious…
  5. Week 5: deluge, inundate, cataclysm, inexorable, rectitude…
  6. Week 6: aspire, pomp, wanton, wretched, ephemeral…
  7. Week 7: resounding, homespun, providence, fervent, verisimilitude…
  8. Week 8: gaudy, vulgar, fledgling, grapple, loquacious…
  9. Week 9: wrought, luscious, vintage, swathe (also swath), luminous…
  10. Week 10: defile, nether, pervasive, dominant, vivacity…
  11. Week 11: profusion, verdure, sumptuous, gilded, vehement…
  12. Week 12: denominate, adjacent, propensity, repose, vouch…
  13. Week 13: penury, pecuniary, meretricious, instigate, largesse…
  14. Week 14: clerical, demure, genial, sardonic, brazen…
  15. Week 15: insufferable, abode, rustic, magnify, universal…
  16. Week 16: redemption, sage, hallowed, prevent, awful…
  17. Week 17: invoke, chaos, abyss, pregnant, mortal…
  18. Week 18: mellow, laden, replete, fruition, winnow…
  19. Week 19: overawe, strife, err, doctrine, filial…
  20. Week 20: decree, ordain, paramount, prerogative, amity…
  21. Week 21: fitting, extant, primary, contemporaneous, provenance…
  22. Week 22: sentiment, import, continual, acquire, collate…
  23. Week 23: self-evident, unalienable, institute, consent, derive…
  24. Week 24: enchantment, celerity, disseminate, catalyst, significance…
  25. Week 25: contemporary, affect, exhilaration, predecessor, elegiac…
  26. Week 26: voluntary, exorbitant, whim, squander, hindsight…
  27. Week 27: sarcasm, parry, absorb, cardinal, specimen…
  28. Week 28: groundless, guttural, feudal, idolize, implication…
  29. Week 29: orthodox, waive, maritime, succession, adverse…
  30. Week 30: analogy, rehearse, satire, mania, dilemma…
  31. Week 31: subordinate, verge, imitate, inventory, illusion…
  32. Week 32: incredulity, conquest, inadvertent, loathe, monotony…
  33. Week 33: prelude, merciful, profess, ceremonial, detest…
  34. Week 34: emergence, waft, fathom, transact, bristle…
  35. Week 35: elude, tangible, stingy, inbred, pungent…