7th Grade Vocabulary Words - List 21
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| Word | Definition | Practice Sentence | Synonyms | Antonyms | Part of Speech Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| travail | A lot of effort or toil. | After much travail, he finally finished the project on time. | struggle, trial, tribulation | contentment, pleasure, happiness | Noun |
| wondrous | A feeling of marvel. | The sights and sounds of the city were wondrous to behold. | extraordinary, amazing, fascinating | boring, ordinary, expected | Adjective |
| stunning | Extremely impressive. | The stunning sunset took everyone's breath away. | dazzling, beautiful, marvelous | homely, typical, insignificant | Adjective |
| interpolation | The act of inserting something rather spontaneously. (e.g., inserting a remark into a conversation) | He made an interpolation in his speech to address the new developments. | infusion, injection, interjection | deletion, aside, deviation | Noun |
| immobile | Not moving. | The boulder appeared immobile, but with enough effort it could be rolled away. | motionless, static, stationary | mobile, movable, transitory | Adjective |
| conviction | A strong belief in something. | Her conviction that she was right never wavered, even in the face of strong opposition. | opinion, principle, view | doubt, disbelief, distrust | Noun |
| evade | To get away from. | He tried to evade the question by changing the subject. | avoid, escape, flee | confront, encounter, face | Verb |
| oracle | A person that gives valuable advice. | She consulted the oracle to find out what the future held. | prophet, visionary, seer | Noun | |
| jeering | To be loud, rude, and mock another person or group of people. | The jeering crowd began to annoy the baseball players. | taunting, deriding, ridiculing | complementing, flattering, praising | Adjective |
| proficient | Of competent ability. | She was proficient in three languages, which made her a valuable asset. | skilled, able, accomplished | inept, inexperienced, unskilled | Adjective |
| overtly | In an obvious way. | He was overtly rude to the waiter, causing embarrassment to his companions. | clearly, openly, apparently | deceitfully, deviously, sneakily | Adverb |
| fiasco | A complete failure. | The party was a fiasco, with insufficient food or entertainment for the guests. | catastrophe, disaster, debacle | achievement, triumph, accomplishment | Noun |
| enhance | To further improve the quality or value of something. | The chef added herbs to enhance the flavor of the dish. | heighten, strengthen, upgrade | diminish, subtract, reduce | Verb |
| pinnacle | The most important or successful part of something. | Reaching the pinnacle of success in his field was his lifelong goal. | crest, apex, peak | bottom, base, low point | Noun |
| correlation | A connection between two things so that when one thing changes, so does the other in a similar way. | There is a strong correlation between exercise and good health. | parallel, equivalence, interaction | disconnection, disassociation, imbalance | Noun |
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