Vocabulary Unit 8
Boost your vocabulary! Master Unit 8 words with synonym, antonym, and context clue exercises.
Write correctly the vocabulary word from unit 8 that best completes each sentence. Be sure to use the correct verb tense. My interest in Jennifer was piqued when I heard she loves Degrassi as much as I do. From the way he acted, I always presumed that Dante wasn’t from around here Trent gave his girlfriend a ring as an emblem of his everlasting love for her. The basketball team plucked a victory out of thin air when they made an astonishing 20-point comeback in the fourth quarter. Maria was disheartened to hear that she didn’t get the lead in the school musical The mathematician pondered the equation for weeks before he finally figured out how to solve it. Daria loves to browse through the crates of vinyl records at the record store for hours on end. There’s nothing I love more than spending a mellow day relaxing in the hammock in my backyard. The criminal genius figured out a way to make convincing counterfeit passports using nothing but a laser printer and a roll of Scotch tape. My neighbor is a film editor, and he invited us to see a preview of the new Superman movie months before it was released in the theater. I think I hear a tiger lurking in the bushes! We have to get out of here! I’m so hungry I could devour an entire cow right about now We sat on the beach and watched the sun recede below the horizon until it disappeared. Bryce always patronizes us; he acts like he’s better than us just because he made a viral video. How hard can that be? My puppy is so exuberant when I come home from school, I have to run around the block with him a few times to calm him down. Match the vocabulary word with either its synonym or antonym. recede increase browse look through presume disbelief exhuberant extremely enthusiastic preview sneak peek mellow harsh devour consume lurk snoop dishearten encourage pluck to pick counterfeit genuine patronize condescend ponder forget about emblem symbol pique provoke mellow relaxed