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vocab and grammer test 3
israeli english test
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7th Grade
05/03/2013

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Term
Ensue
Definition

n. To follow; to come as a result of

 

When the principle declared the next day a holiday, shouting and claping ensued.

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Grievous
Definition

adj. Causing grief or pain; hard to bear

 

It was a Grievous loss to the entire family when my dog died.

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Inundate
Definition

v. 1. To cover, as with water from a flood.

     The valley was inundate when the dam burst.

 

v. 2. To load with with a massive amount of something

       Fans inundated Met-Life Stadium during the Super Bowl.

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Placate
Definition

v. To stop from being angry; to calm down

 

I was able to placate Smadar, when I explained to her why I was late.

Term
Principle
Definition

adj. 1. Most important

       ASPCA's principle objective is to keep dogs safe.

 

 n. 1. Something/one that is most important

      Veterans are the principlas in the dispute over bringing home the troops.

 

n. 2. The head of school

    Our principal is Morah Smadar

 

n. 3. The money owed (without the intrest)

    You will need $9000 to pay the principal on the car loan.

 

 

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Recede
Definition

v. 1. To move back or to drop to a lower level

     I picked up a monoply card that told me to recede 3 spaces back.

 

v. 2. To become fainter

     The green paint on the wall receded as it turned into a lighter shade of green.

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Sacrifice
Definition

n. 1. Something given up for the sake of another 

    The parents sacrificed many things so their son could go to college.

 

n. 2. an offiring to god 

    Moses made many sacrifices on an altar.

 

v. 1. to give something up for another

    I sacrificed my privacy so my cousin would have a room to sleep in.

 

v. 2. To offer something of great value to god 

    Moses sacrificed beautiful things to god.````

Term
Assert
Definition

v. to say firmly; to declare

   The orincipla asserted that their will be no running during fire drills.

Term
Avert
Definition

v. 1. To turn away

     I averted my eyes from the scary scenes in the movie.

 

v. 2. To keep from happening

     The driver averted the accident by hitting the brakes.

Term
Bleak
Definition

adj. 1. Without much hope

    After 4 hrs. of selling lemonade the kids started selling their lemonade bleakly.



adj. 2. cold; exposed to bad wheather.

     Peguins seem to survive in Antartica's bleak weather.

Term
Blithe
Definition

adj. 1. Cheerful; carefree

    The children's blithe mood was caused because of the funny clown.

 

adj. 2. Not showing proper care

   The driver showed a blithe indifference to the kids' saftey on the highway.

Term
Docile
Definition

adj. Well behaved; easy to handle

    Kids under the age of 6 get very docile horses to ride.

Term
Monitor
Definition

v. To watch and observe closely and frequently 

     Kids hate when Parent monitor their social life.

 

n. A video screen used to display information

    Most computers need monitors  to dispay their information.

Term
Nimble
Definition

adj. 1. Able to move quickly and easily

     The guitarist's nimble fingers were able to play a beautiful solo during the concert.

 

adj. 2. Clever; showing quickness of thinking

    Only nimble minds can solve the rubix cube.

Term
Plight
Definition

n. a difficult or dangerous condition or situation

     Many people know how much of a plight homeless people are in, but still they never help homeless people.

Term
Verge
Definition

n. an edge or border

   Polar bears were on the verge of being exticnt for a while.

 

v. being close to the edge or border of

    border control verges the mexican american border often.

Term
Detach
Definition

v. 1. to separte from

   I detached the ticket stub from the ticket.

 

v. 2. lacking cincern; not taking sides

     I stayed detached when my friends had a fight so one of them wouldn't be angry t me.

Term
Fathom
Definition

n. a unit of measurment that used to measure the depth of water, equal to six feet.

    I went scuba diving 6 fathoms under sea level.

 

v. to figure out; to understand

   I will fathom the rubix cube.

Term
Tedious
Definition

adj. Seeming to go on for a long time; boring

   posting labels on my bar mitzvah invations was very tedious.

Term
Unscathed
Definition

adj. Comletly unharmed

    there was a lucky few that were unscathed from the Boston Marathon bombing.

Term
abyss
Definition

n. 1. A deep opening in the earth

    Yesterday i walked ober and abyss on a sturdy bridge

n. 2. Anything to deep to measure

     they had to build special telescopes to see the big abyss of space in Australia.

Term
Arbitrate
Definition

v. To settle a dissagreement with a third indifferent person that heard both sides

     The U.S. arbitrated many dissagreement bet. Israel and iraq

Term
devout
Definition

adj. 1. very religiuos

    devout muslims pray 5 times a day

 

adj. 2. Sincere 

    I am a devout believer of Global Warming.

Term
inclined
Definition

v. 1. to slope

     it was hard for me to incline with my skiis because the incline of the mountain was so steep.

 

v. 2. to be likely to; to have a fondness for

   i was inclined to get a good score because i studied hard 

 

v. 3. to bend or bow (the head)

   during one of our prayers, we incline our heads to show respect.

 

n. 4. a sloping surface

    it was hard for me to incline with my skiis because the incline of the mountain was so steep.

Term
Compromise
Definition

v. 1. to comprimise

     i needed to give up many things for a comprmise with my brothers

 

v. 2. to show or to share something secretive 

     suspect #2 comprimised his brother's plans

 

n. a compromise

    I AM GO0D AT MAKING COMPROMISES

Term
intervene
Definition

v. to enter in order to settle or help something

     my mom always intervenes in my fights with my brothers

Term
sacred
Definition

adj. 1. holy; having to do with religion

    The kotel is sacred to us.

 

adj. 2. worthy of getting alot of respect

   the Budaa statue is a sacred figure to some.

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