8th Grade Short Story Vocabulary terms
Across
- 3. (adv) in a clever way that is meant to trick or deceive
- 6. (adverb) showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve
- 8. (adj) skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage
- 10. (adj) enough; adequate
- 11. (n.) great mental suffering, distress, or pain; (v.) to be deeply tormented by pain or sorrow
- 13. (v) to ask for information
- 14. (adj.) very earnest, emotional, passionate; extremely hot
- 19. (n) friendly welcome and treatment of guests
- 21. (adj) forgetful; unaware
- 22. (adj) savagely fierce, cruel, or violent
- 23. (adverb) barely; hardly; not quite
- 26. (adj) Permitting light to pass through, but not transparent
- 27. (v.) to dry up, wilt, sag; to cause someone to feel ashamed, humiliated, or very small
- 28. (adj) irritated; annoyed (v) to annoy or irritate
- 30. (adv) in a friendly manner
Down
- 1. (adj) standing out so as to be easily seen; important, well-known
- 2. (adj.) lower in rank or position, secondary; (n.) one who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else; (v.) to put in a lower or secondary position
- 4. (noun) an improvement or correction
- 5. (adj) unbiased; neutral
- 7. (adj) unnoticed
- 9. (adj) shrewd or sharp
- 12. (v.) to make over in good form; to restore to good condition or to a former position
- 15. (adj) having or showing high moral standards
- 16. (v) formed in the mind
- 17. (n) Excessive self-importance; conceit
- 18. (adj) obvious; very clear; evident (v) display or show (a quality or feeling) by one's acts or appearance; demonstrate
- 20. (adj) feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with
- 24. (v.) to move to and fro, become unsteady; to show a lack of firmness or decision
- 25. (v.) to declare or state as truth, maintain or defend, put forward forcefully
- 29. (adj) not easily upset or excited