WordMasters List #2: Gold Division for 5th Grade
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29 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 stamina1 | resistance to fatigue, illness, hardship, etc.; endurance noun |
| stamina2 | plural of stamen noun |
| evade | 1. [Rare] to escape; get away 2. To be deceitful or clever in avoiding or escaping something; use evasion verb 1. To avoid or escape from by or cleverness; elude 2. To avoid doing or answering correctly; get around; get out of verb |
| sketchy | 1. having the form of a sketch; presenting only major parts or points; not detailed 2. Lacking completeness; rough; inadequate adjective |
| tyrant | 1. An absolute leader, specif., in ancient Greece, etc., one who seized sovereignty illegally; usurper 2. A cruel, oppressive ruler; despot 3. any person who exercises authority in an oppressive matter; cruel master 4. A tyrannical influence noun |
| shirk | 1. to neglect or evade doing (something that should be done) 2. To neglect or evade work, duty, etc. verb |
| amicable | friendly in feeling; showing good will; peaceful adjective |
| mettle | quality of character or temperament; esp., high quality of character; spirit; courage; ardor noun |
| domineer | to rule (over) in a harsh or arrogant way; tyrannize; bully |
| mundane | 1. Of the world; esp., worldly, as distinguished from heavenly, spiritual, etc. 2. Commonplace, everyday, ordinary, etc. adjective |
| disposition | 1. A putting in order or being put in order; arrangement 2. Management or settlement of affairs 3. A selling or giving away, as of property 4. A getting rid of something 5. The power to arrange, settle, or manage; control 6. An inclination or tendency 7. One's customary frame of mind; one's nature or temperament noun |
| enact | 1. To make (a bill, etc.) into a law; pass (a law); decree; ordain 2. To represent or perform in as a law or play; act out verb |
| peaked1 | having or ending in a peak; pointed adjective |
| peaked2 | thin and drawn, or weak and wan, as from illness adjective |
| refuse1 | 1. To decline to accept; reject 2. a) to decline to do, give, or grant b) to decline (with an infinitive object) 3. a) to decline to accept or submit to (a command, etc.); to decline to undergo b) to decline to grant the request of (a person) 4. to stop short at (a fence, etc.), without jumping at it: as said by a horse 5. [Obs.] to renounce 6. to decline to accept, agree to, or do something verb |
| refuse2 | anything thrown away or rejected as useless or worthless; waste; trash; rubbish noun thrown away or rejected as useless or worthless adjective |
| establish | 1. to make stable; make firm; settle 2. to order, ordain, or enact (a law, statute, etc.) permanently 3. to set up (a government, nation, business, etc.); found; institute 4. to cause to be or happen; bring about 5. to settle in an office or position, or to set up as a business or profession 6. to make a state institution of (a church) 7. to set up (a precedent, theory, reputation, etc.) permanently; cause to be accepted or recognize 8. to prove; demonstrate 9. Card Games to win control of (a suit) so that one is sure of taking all the remaining tricks in it verb |
| lax | 1. a) loose; emptying easily (said of the bowels) b) having lax bowels 2. slack; of a loose texture; not rigid or tight 3. not strict or exact; careless 4. loose; open: said of a flower cluster 5. articulated with the jaw and tongue muscles relatively relaxed: said of certain vowels adjective a lax vowel noun |
| threshold | 1. DOORSILL 2. the entrance or beginning point of something 3. Physiology, Psychology the point at which a stimulus is just strong enough to be perceived or produce a response noun |
| sneer | 1. to smile derisively; show scorn or contempt as by curling the upper lip 2. to express derision, scorn, or contempt in speech or writing 3. to utter with a sneer or in a sneering matter 4. to effect in a particular way by sneering verb 1. an act of sneering 2. a sneering expression, insinuation, etc. noun |
| rigorous | 1. very strict or harsh 2. very severe or sharp 3. rigidly precise; thoroughly accurate or exact adjective |
| etiquette | 1. the forms, manners, and ceremonies established by convention as acceptable or required in social relations, in a profession, or in official life 2. the rules for such forms, rules, and ceremonies noun |
| bicker | 1. to have a petty quarrel; squabble 2. to move with quick, rippling noises 3. to flicker, twinkle, etc. verb 1. a petty quarrel 2. a rippling or pattering sound noun |
| derelict | 1. deserted by the owner; abandoned; forsaken 2. neglectful of duty; remiss; negligent adjective 1. a property abandoned by the owner; esp., an abandoned ship on the open sea 2. a destitute person, without a home or a job and rejected by society 3. land exposed by the receding of water noun |
| faux pas | a social blunder; error in etiquette; tactless act or remark pl. faux pas |
| snicker | 1. to laugh in a derisive, partly stifled matter 2. to neigh; nicker 3. to utter with a snicker verb a sly or derisive, partly stifled laugh noun |
| haggard | 1. Falconry designating a hawk captured after reaching maturity 2. untamed; unruly; wild 3. a) wild-eyed b) having a wild, wasted, worn look, as from sleeplessness, grief, or illness; gaunt; drawn adjective Falconry a haggard hawk noun |
| wrangle1 | 1. to quarrel angrily and noisily 2. to argue; dispute 3. to argue (a person) into or out of something verb an angry, noisy dispute or quarrel noun |
| wrangle2 | to herd (livestock, esp. saddle horses) verb |
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