101-200 9th Grade Vocab

Not harmonious; jarring to the ear; harsh; not in agreement; conflicting

Temporarily impulsive or violent; intermittent and intense; convulsive

They'll have to ____ those big rocks out of the ground with a bulldozer.

Deserving to be despised; contemptible; detestable

Fearfulness; alarm; agitation; trembling from such cause

Lacking confidence; timid; shy

Made impossible or ineffective; kept from happening; prevented

Fancy style of ornamentation with curves and shell work

He was born in a _____, many miles from the nearest city

Cloudy; dense; stirred up; in a confused state

Pertaining to only one group; narrowness of interest

Ridiculously humorous; absurd

Sad; sorrowful; mournful

Allowing light to show through; transparent or transluscent

Dirty; foul; wretched; low class

Shine; luster; brightness

A person or thing greatly detested, cursed or damned; a person excommunicated; a curse

The travelers followed the _____ path of the river although they feared that they were lost.

Melodious; pleasing to the ear; soothing; pleasant

Of the same kind, quality or degree

Unplanned; acting from a natural impulse; self-generated

Prematurely developed; matured earlier than is normal; mentally advanced beyond one's years

A turning away or departure form; a divergence

Apparently but not actually just, sound, correct, etc.; suspect; deceiving

Retrograde means overflowing or full of.

Lobsters and shrimps are _____.

Cut off; shortened

Harshly critical; extremely severe; caustic

To open wide; to enlarge

To defy contemptuously; to scorn or scoff; such an act

Given life, motion or inspiration; full of life; spirited; active; inspired

She has published two books and is working on the final one in her _____.

The act or action of focusing or concentrating; the location of concentrated attention

Disparaging; defaming; belittling

Deception; deceitfulness; double-dealing

To make twisting or turning movements; to squirm; to contort the body as in agony

Swollen; distended; inflated or bombastic in expression

Not genuine; counterfeit

When you are far from home and friends, it's easy to become _____.

Something needed and wanted; something much desired

An affected, pretentious or hypocritical performance; a performance using action and gestures but no dialogue

Incisive; perceptive; to the point; keen; vigorous; forceful

State of disuse; uselessness

A person trained to administer anesthetics

An unfavorable remark; adverse criticism; blame

To speak badly of; to defame; to slander

Causing or characterized by delay; tardy; slow

A set of specific ideas or belief; a doctrine

Diatribe is abusive speech; harsh denunciation

Not ornamented; bleak; plain; absolute; downright

State of being without means of subsistence; great poverty

Instruction for improvement; enlightenment; clarification

One who is superficially interested; a dabbler; a lover of fine art without deep knowledge of it

Little; small; diminished or diminishing; a word expressing smallness, familiarity, etc.

Echoes; reboundings; vibrations

Belligerent; fierce; hostile; ferocious; cruel; harsh; scathing

He reached the ____ of his career when he was elected president.

Extremely loud

Happy excited; exuberant; bubbling or boiling up

Deserving blame or censure; blameworthy

To draw back; to withdraw; to take back

To reduce; to curtail; to economize

So involved or entangled as not to be removed or extricated

That which differs from what is commonly expected; a deviation from the rule; an irregularity or abnormality

Overwhelmingly happy; intensely delighted; rapturious

Staid means very reserved; sedate; sober, grave.

Continuing for a long time; recurrent

Going before; that which goes before

Not containing or possessing; empty; without

An authoritative order issued publicly; a decree

Capable of being drawn think or worked without breaking

Clear; shining; distinct; easily understood; mentally alert; rational

Regarded with reverence or deep respect

Of two; having or composed of two parts; double; twofold

Not outspoken; uncommunicative; taciturn

He said that he saw a(n) _____ near the cemetery last night.

Instructive; teaching a moral lesson

A sideboard; a meal set out on a sideboard rather than on a table; to knock about, push or force roughly

A dromedary is a an Arabian or one-humped camel.

Not a natural or inherent part of; extraneous; nonessential

A state of daydreaming, being lost in thought or musing; a daydream

Resuscitate means to put into effect officially and publically; openly declared; proclaimed

Made of or resembling brass; impudent; bold; shameless; defiantly reckless; to act in such manner

Isolated in occurrence; occasional; intermittent