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Weekly Vocabulary Words for Kids August 8

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adroit | see definition»

having or showing great skill or cleverness
affluent | see definition»

having plenty of money and expensive things : WEALTHY
banish | see definition»

to cause to go away
dubious | see definition»

feeling doubt
grotesque | see definition»

unnatural in an odd or ugly way
hereditary | see definition»

received or passing from an ancestor to an heir
lurk | see definition»

to be in a hidden place
rifle | see definition»

to search through quickly and roughly often to steal something

Previous Vocabulary Lessons

August 1
July 25
July 18
July 11
July 4
June 27
June 20
June 13
June 6
May 31
May 23
May 16
May 9
May 2
April 25
April 18
April 11
April 4
March 28
March 21
March 7
December 21: efficacious, flippant, jerky…
December 7: retrospect, revere, rustic…
November 23: conscientious, detriment, diverge…
November 16: bombard, flimsy, gait…
November 9: bastion, beckon, complement…
November 2: conjure, discern, haywire…
October 26: acquaint, intervene, pompous…
October 19: astute, avenue, distract…
October 11: bayou, engulf, exaggerate…
October 4: fray, melodramatic, milieu…
September 27: behave, horde, lament…
September 21: acquiesce, anxious, escalate…
September 13: convoluted, demolish, exorbitant…
September 6: cascade, charisma, deflect…
August 30: feckless, immense, incredulous…
August 23: blunt, echo, infuse…
August 16: consternation, defer, melancholy…
August 9: chronic, compunction, draconian…
August 2
July 26
July 19

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