Grade 8: Unit 5: Vocabulary from Readings

This list covers "Macavity: The Mystery Cat," "Vermin," and "Not My Bones."
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  1. bafflement
    confusion resulting from failure to understand
  2. depravity
    moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
  3. fiend
    an evil supernatural being
  4. levitation
    the phenomenon of rising as if by supernatural means
  5. suavity
    the quality of being charming and gracious in manner
  6. vermin
    any of various small animals or insects that are pests
  7. converge
    be adjacent or come together
  8. incarnation
    time passed in a particular bodily form
  9. essential
    basic and fundamental
  10. cosmic
    pertaining to or characteristic of the universe
Created on Tue May 18 12:45:16 EDT 2021 (updated Wed May 19 16:35:19 EDT 2021)

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