QUARTER 2 VOCABULARY

1. QUARTER 2 VOCABULARY

2. Lesson 8 • OCTOBER 28-NOVEMBER 1

3. 1. FASTIDIOUS • Fastidious people are extremely neat and picky about details.

4. 2. awry • If something goes awry, it fails to happen in the way it was planned.

5. 3. gingerly • When you do something gingerly, you do it carefully because you are nervous about making a mistake or getting hurt.

6. 4. malicious • A malicious person wants to hurt others or cause them pain.

7. 5. mock • Someone who mocks you imitates you in order to make fun of you.

8. 6. fabrication • A fabrication is something that is created, not natural

9. 7. inhabit • If you inhabit a place, you live there

10. 8. Affix • When something is affixed, it is attached to something else.

11. 9. INCIPIENT • Something that is incipient is just beginning to happen.

12. 10. mutate • If something mutates, it changes into some new, usually strange, form.

13. LESSON 9 NOVEMBER 4-8

14. 1. PHENOMENON • A phenomenon is a rare or unusually important event.

15. 2. REPLETE • Something that is replete is almost completely filled.

16. 3. elude • If you elude something that is chasing you, you escape from it using cleverness and skill.

17. 4. skeptical • If you are skeptical about something, you doubt that it’s true.

18. 5. credible • Someone or something that is credible can be trusted or believed.

19. 6. debunk • If you debunk some idea or belief that people have, you show proof that it is not true or real.

20. 7. substantial • When there is a substantial amount of something, there is a lot of it.

21. 8. implausible • A story that is implausible is so unlikely that it’s hard to believe.

22. 9. conjecture • A conjecture is an opinion you form without much proof.

23. 10. fraudulent • If someone’s words or actions are fraudulent, they are meant to be false or dishonest.