For students in middle school (6th, 7th, and 8th grade), learning words vocabulary is a major task. In general, let us form the new words in three groups:
- Spelling words: know them and can spell them correctly to narrate
- Academic words: used in classes for all subjects, must know them
- Literature words: selected from masterpieces that are endorsed to students of the grades, nice to identify them
Middle School Vocabulary Words
Follow are the middle grade level words with meaning that a middle school student should know:
- Apprehensive: in fear or dread of possible evil or harm
- Conspicuous: obvious to the eye or mind
- Aptitude: inherent ability
- Banish: send away from a place of residence, as for punishment
- Barricade: block off with barriers
- Furtive: secret and sly
- Ignite: cause or start burning
- Illuminate: make free from confusion or ambiguity
- Jabber: talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
- Brackish: slightly salty
- Concoction: any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients
- Dismal: causing dejection
- Emerge: come out into view
- Contortion: a tortuous and twisted shape or position
- Cunning: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- Deft: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands
- Destination: the place designated as the end, as of a race or journey
- Obscure: not clearly understood or expressed
- Ominous: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
- Knoll: a small natural hill
- Luminous: softly bright or radiant
- Malleable: easily influenced
- Meander: move or cause to move in a winding or curving course
- Disdain: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- Engross: consume all of one attention, time
- Exasperation: a feeling of annoyance
- Fragrance: pleasant odor
- Jargon: technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
- Kindle: call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
- Meticulous: marked by extreme care in treatment of details
- Narrate: give a detailed account of
- Outlandish: noticeably or extremely unconventional or unusual
- Adversary: someone who offers opposition
- Aplomb: great coolness and composure under strain
- Attentive: taking heed
- Bluff: a high steep bank
- Brandish: move or swing back and forth
- Circumference: the length of the closed curve of a circle
- Commotion: a disorderly outburst or tumult
- Counter: a calculator recording the number of times something happens
- Debris: the remains of something that has been destroyed
- Defiance: a hostile challenge
- Deft: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands
- Diminish: decrease in size, extent, or range
- Dismal: causing dejection
- Dispel: cause to separate and go in different directions
- Eavesdrop: listen without the speaker’s knowledge
- Egregious: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- Ember: a hot, smoldering fragment of wood left from a fire
- Exhilarate: fill with sublime emotion
- Falter: move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
- Foresight: seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
- Grueling: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
- Gusto: vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- Habitation: the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place
- Hasten: move fast
- Headway: forward movement
- Impending: close in time; about to occur
- Imperious: having or showing arrogant superiority
- Jostle: make one’s way by pushing or shoving
- Jut: extend out or project in space
- Materialize: come into being; become reality
- Misgiving: uneasiness about the fitness of an action
- Momentum: the product of a body’s mass and its velocity
- Monotonous: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- Multitude: a large indefinite number
- Muster: summon up, call forth, or bring together
- Persistent: stubbornly unyielding
- Pertinent: being of striking appropriateness
- Potential: existing in possibility
- Precipice: a very steep cliff
- Pristine: immaculately clean and unused
- Quell: suppress or crush completely
- Recluse: one who lives in solitude
- Recuperate: restore to good health or strength
- Replenish: fill something that had previously been emptied
- Repugnant: offensive to the mind
- Restitution: the act of restoring something to its original state
- Sabotage: a deliberate act of destruction or disruption
- Scarcity: a small and inadequate amount
- Scurry: move about or proceed hurriedly
- Serenity: the absence of mental stress or anxiety
- Sociable: inclined to or conducive to companionship with others
- Somber: serious and gloomy in character
- Specimen: a bit of tissue or fluid taken for diagnostic purposes
- Stamina: enduring strength and energy
- Subside: wear off or die down
- Swagger: walk with a lofty proud gait
- Swarm: a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- Tactic: a plan for attaining a particular goal
- Terse: brief and to the point
- Translucent: allowing light to pass through diffusely
- Uncanny: surpassing the ordinary or normal
- Unsightly: unpleasant to look at
- Versatile: having great diversity or variety
- Vigilant: carefully observant or attentive
- Vulnerable: capable of being wounded or hurt
- Waft: a long flag; often tapering
- Waver: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
- Weather: atmospheric conditions such as temperature and precipitation
- Zeal: a feeling of strong eagerness
Bearing in mind the nature of language studying, interactive exercises, like online lists and cards, are very effective for middle school students. So it is suggested to advance more into online tools than the elementary level.
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