VOCABULARY

ADAGE- NOUN

• An old saying
• I often find the adage "out of sight, out of mind" to be true.

BONANZA-NOUN

• Something(event) that makes a lot of something good
• In the game Wii Party, during bank bonanza, a player wins all the money in the bank.

CHURLISH- ADJECTIVE

• Mean, rude
• The person was very churlish when they harshly insulted their sibling.

CITADEL- NOUN

• Protective fortress
• The citadel was positioned by the wall, ready to protect the city from intruders.

COLLABORATE- VERB

• To work together
• Lots of YouTubers collaborate on videos, so they film, write, and star in the video together.

DECREE- NOUN

• Official command
• The king made a decree that banned strangers from entering the kingdom.

DISCORDANT- ADJECTIVE

• Conflicting, disagreeing
• The selfish person is discordant of sharing anything, and will agree until they get their way.

EVOLVE- VERB

• Change over time
• After studying lots of different characteristics of animals, scientists believe many animals evolved through random mutations.

EXCERPT- NOUN OR VERB

• (To take) A small piece taken from something, usually like a quote.
• For our assignment, we had to analyze an important excerpt from a speech and guess which speech it was from.

GROPE- VERB

• Feel around uncertainly
• She groped around the walls of the dark room, looking for the light switch.

HOVER- VERB OR NOUN

• To float above ground in one spot; act of floating in one place
• The fog hovered over the ground, floating and unmoving.

JOSTLE- VERB OR NOUN

• To move aggressively through a crowd; the act of moving...
• You could see the person jostling through the crowd, pushing and shoving their way to the front.

LAGGARD- NOUN OR ADJECTIVE

• Someone slower than others; slow
• The laggard was several feet behind the other hikers.

PLAUDITS- NOUN

• Applause, praise, cheers
• The plaudits after the performance made the performer happy.

PRECLUDE- VERB

• To stop, to prevent
• The hailstorm precluded the people from going outside.

REVERT- VERB

• To return to a form from before
• In Call of the Wild, Buck reverted back to his primitive self, and started acting like a wild wolf.

RUBBLE- NOUN

• Broken, crumpled remains, usually from a building
• After the buildings collapsed, there were people searching through the rubble for survivors.

SERVILE- ADJECTIVE

• Willing to serve
• After being tortured many times, the dragon was when its owners came.

VIGIL- NOUN

• A time of keeping watch whole staying awake, sometimes silent
• In the Warriors series,when the cats become warriors, they have to keep vigil outside the camp all night without speaking.

WRANGLE- NOUN

• Long argument
• A wrangle between the government and the sanitation workers over a contract caused the sanitation workers to stop working and go on strike.