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Weekly Vocabulary Words for Kids August 22

Increase your child's vocabulary with this list.

  1. apiary | see definition»

    a place where bees are kept

  2. compensate | see definition»

    to give money to make up for something

  3. contrite | see definition»

    feeling or showing sorrow for having done something bad or wrong : REPENTANT

  4. expedite | see definition»

    to cause (something) to happen faster

  5. garbled | see definition»

    made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up

  6. ransack | see definition»

    to search through in a way that causes disorder or damage

  7. superfluous | see definition»

    going beyond what is enough or necessary : EXTRA

  8. unison | see definition»

    in exact agreement

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