Essential Eighth Grade Vocabulary: List 7

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  1. wily
    marked by skill in deception
  2. glean
    gather, as of natural products
  3. eddy
    a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind
  4. impassive
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  5. erratic
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  6. exuberant
    joyously unrestrained
  7. concise
    expressing much in few words
  8. wry
    humorously sarcastic or mocking
  9. painstaking
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  10. brusque
    rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
  11. quaver
    give off unsteady sounds
  12. terse
    brief and to the point
  13. wallow
    roll around
  14. sully
    make dirty or spotty
  15. emaciated
    very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold
Created on Tue Jun 03 18:35:28 EDT 2025 (updated Tue Jun 03 18:38:09 EDT 2025)

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