Year 8 Vocabulary words - as chosen by the students
Blesiloquent - to speak with a lisp (or slang - a bit silly)
⁹ Phonetic - to spell words as they soundeg- chanale by Rivky Perlow ⁸ Vociferous - loud shout/noise (human)
"The crowd was vociferous is its outcry over . . . "
Quintessential - typical, purest or most perfect form
"Quintessential Hollywood Party"
"They were the quintessential well-behaved class"
Nebulus - hazy, vague, confused
"We had trouble understanding the nebulous topic of quantum physics"
Equivocal - questionable, suspicious, dubious
"He was equivocal in his denial of the events of the previous evening"
Fastidious - hard to please, overly critical, painstaking
"Mr Jones is always fastidious eater"
"Mum was always fastidious in how she wanted my room tidied."
Floccinaucinihilipification - taunting someone using worthless facts
Hippoputomonstrouseqyuipdeliaphobia - the fear of long words
Halcyon - calm, peaceful, happy
ie "halcyon days"
"I am looking forward to a halcyon summer, no work, no sport and nothing else to do than read a few good books."
"The year we spent in Mrs Shteyman's English class was a halcyon time"
Year 8 Vocabulary words - as chosen by the students
Blesiloquent - to speak with a lisp (or slang - a bit silly)
⁹
Phonetic - to spell words as they sound eg- chanale
by Rivky Perlow
⁸
Vociferous - loud shout/noise (human)
"The crowd was vociferous is its outcry over . . . "
Quintessential - typical, purest or most perfect form
"Quintessential Hollywood Party"
"They were the quintessential well-behaved class"
Nebulus - hazy, vague, confused
"We had trouble understanding the nebulous topic of quantum physics"
Equivocal - questionable, suspicious, dubious
"He was equivocal in his denial of the events of the previous evening"
Fastidious - hard to please, overly critical, painstaking
"Mr Jones is always fastidious eater"
"Mum was always fastidious in how she wanted my room tidied."
Floccinaucinihilipification - taunting someone using worthless facts
Hippoputomonstrouseqyuipdeliaphobia - the fear of long words
Halcyon - calm, peaceful, happy
ie "halcyon days"
"I am looking forward to a halcyon summer, no work, no sport and nothing else to do than read a few good books."
"The year we spent in Mrs Shteyman's English class was a halcyon time"
Icondite - badly put together