7th Grade Spelling Words With Definition
Grade 7: With Definition - 1
The page presents 7th Grade spelling vocabulary (1) with definition. Some words have example sentences selected from classic literature. The vocabulary integrates some training tools to help study and review these words. E.g., online spelling practices and word meaning single choice quizzes are available for each word in Grade 7.
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| absolutely |      |
ad. completely or definitely; used as a strong way of saying 'yes'
Yes, absolutely clear and certain.
It is absolutely necessary that I should have a talk with you.
Nothing but dry business matters, Mrs Helmer; absolutely nothing else.
| accept | |
v. agree to take something
v. believe that something is true
v. believe that something is true
If I offered my heart, I believe you would accept it.
I cannot accept on His behalf a divided allegiance: it must be entire.
Then I should have asked you to accept my pledge of fidelity and to give me yours.
| access | |
n. method or possibility of getting near to a place or person
n. entry or entrance
n. entry or entrance
I have made an agreement with the navy, that the access to my island shall be free of all charge.
As I had expected, I found some difficulty in obtaining access to the grand-marshal; but I sent the ring I had received from the captain to him, and was instantly admitted.
He was now fairly launched in that Parisian society which gives such ready access to foreigners, and treats them, not as they really are, but as they wish to be considered.
| accessory | |
n. additional object; useful but not essential thing; subordinate or supplementary item
| accomplish | |
v. succeed in doing; bring to pass; achieve; reach the end of; complete
Jo rather prided herself upon her shopping capabilities, and particularly wished to impress her escort with the neatness and dispatch with which she would accomplish the business.
I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good.
If he liked the majestic, she was the very type of majesty: then she was accomplished, sprightly.
| achieve | |
v. gain with effort; accomplish; fulfill
I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
Next day new steps were to be taken; my plans could no longer be confined to my own breast; I must impart them in order to achieve their success.
Dantes was on the way he desired to follow, and was moving towards the end he wished to achieve; his heart was in a fair way of petrifying in his bosom.
| activate | |
v. make active or more active; stimulate
When this was done she had a less active part to play.
Violent Bonapartist; took an active part in the return from Elba.
Jo happened to suit Aunt March, who was lame and needed an active person to wait upon her.
| address | |
n. number of the house, name of the road and town where a person lives or works
v. make a formal speech to; deal with or discuss
v. make a formal speech to; deal with or discuss
The address is on it, and here is the money.
I address you upon the subject of sin the sinner.
The cards of address alone remained to nail on: they lay, four little squares, in the drawer.
| adequate | |
a. sufficient; enough to meet a purpose
| admire | |
v. regard with wonder or astonishment; view with surprise
Mother would admire his warm heart, Father his wise head.
Then the goddess shed grace and beauty over her that all the Achaeans might admire her.
They are wild to see the river, sketch the broken bridge, and copy some of the things they admire in my book.
| affectionate | |
a. having affection or warm regard; loving or fond; kindly inclined
And Meg offered her hand with a gesture both affectionate and timid.
Several young ladies, who had taken no notice of her before, were very affectionate all of a sudden.
I would not on any account trifle with her affectionate solicitude; or allow her to hear it from anyone but myself.
| afford | |
v. pay or provide; have the financial means for; bear the cost of
Only just as much as you can afford; and then one of these days I will buy something with it.
You can well afford to indulge their passing whims as long as their business is to anticipate all your desires.
It is a relation which you tell me is to give you great surprise; I hope at least it will not afford you any displeasure.
| alienate | |
v. cause to become unfriendly or hostile; cause someone to stop supporting and agreeing with you
To me, he signified the threatening danger was not so much death, as permanent alienation of intellect.
As for the other five ships, they were taken by winds and seas to Egypt, where Menelaus gathered much gold and substance among people of an alien speech.
| alligator | |
n. a large reptile with a hard skin that lives in and near rivers and lakes
| American | |
n. someone from USA
a. of or relating to the USA
a. of or relating to the USA
| announce | |
v. make something known or tell people about something officially; proclaim
Mr. Kenneth came to announce the event to my master.
Carlini returned, anxious to see his mistress, and announce the joyful intelligence.
At this moment the bell rang to announce the drawing up of the curtain for the second act.
| antidote | |
n. medicine to counteract a poison or disease; agent that relieves or counteracts
| anxious | |
a. worried and nervous; uneasy about an uncertain event or matter
I have no fears for you, yet I am anxious that you should take this trouble rightly.
He sat down near me, and I began to talk to him, for he looked poor and tired and anxious.
They began to get anxious, and Laurie went off to find her, for no one knew what freak Jo might take into her head.
| apiece | |
ad. to or from every one of two or more
Aunt March usually gave the sisters a present of twenty-five dollars apiece at New Year's.
They fired a shot apiece as they started, but their bullets whizzed by and didn't do us any harm.
| apparent | |
a. capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to eye
At their ball; it was apparent enough.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger.
Context Highlight In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger.
His apparent partiality had subsided, his attentions were over, he was the admirer of some one else.
Mary said nothing at all, and Mrs. Medlock looked rather discomfited by her apparent indifference, but, after taking a breath, she went on.
| appearance | |
n. an occasion when someone appears in public
n. formal attendance in court or at a hearing
n. formal attendance in court or at a hearing
When I first saw him I thought him plain, but now his appearance is like that of the gods who dwell in heaven.
Their collective appearance had left on me an impression of high-born elegance, such as I had never before received.
She was shown into the breakfast-parlour, where all but Jane were assembled, and where her appearance created a great deal of surprise.
| appetizer | |
n. a small amount of food eaten before a meal
| appreciative | |
a. showing to understand how good something is
a. being grateful for something
a. being grateful for something
I appreciate your calm reasoning.
All savage natures appreciate a desperate deed.
We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.
| apprenticeship | |
n. term during which one learns a trade from skilled worke
| aptitude | |
n. inherent ability
n. quickness in learning and understanding
n. quickness in learning and understanding
| aquarium | |
n. tank or pool filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals
| archaeology | |
n. study of artifacts and relics of early mankind
| arraignment | |
n. a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
| artificial | |
a. made by humans; produced rather than natural.
A magnificent peach was hanging against an adjoining wall, ripened by the same artificial heat.
They now entered the first saloon, which was of rose-colored satin, with artificial flowers on the wall.
Therefore the room where company meet who practise this art, is full of all things, ready at hand, requisite to furnish matter for this kind of artificial converse.
| aspirin | |
n. white crystalline compound drug to relieve pain, and reduce fever and inflammation
| assume | |
v. suppose to be the case, without proof
It was my time to assume ascendency.
It is fair to assume that Dantes was on board a smuggler.
Scarcely had they entered, when she motioned to Franz to assume the seat of honor.
| athletic | |
a. strong, healthy, and good at sports
I am a good hand at every kind of athletic sport known among mankind.
He had grown a tall, athletic, well-formed man; beside whom my master seemed quite slender and youth-like.
He was an athletic, gigantic bandit, with large eyes, thick lips, and a flat nose; his red hair fell in dishevelled masses like snakes around his shoulders.
| atmosphere | |
n. air, the mixture of gases around the earth
The sun now set: the atmosphere glowed like fire.
There was a late look in the light, a late sense in the atmosphere.
For Mr. Bhaer talked well in this genial atmosphere, and did himself justice.
| attitude | |
n. a feeling or opinion about something or someone
I stood in the same attitude, and threw myself down.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
Context Highlight In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
The boys started, glanced at each other, and then each assumed a listening attitude.
Noirtier watched the expression of each one, and preserved his dignified and commanding attitude.
| attorney | |
n. lawyer, one who is appointed by another to act in his place
Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and had left her four thousand pounds.
He was the same man, or rather the development of the same man, whom we have heretofore seen as assistant attorney at Marseilles.
Having received his orders, I despatched a man to fetch the attorney, and four more, provided with serviceable weapons, to demand my young lady of her jailor.
| attractive | |
a. very pleasing in appearance or sound; inviting or tempting
The art table was the most attractive in the room.
Certainly Torvald does understand how to make a house dainty and attractive.
My neighbour struck me as bordering on repulsive; I knew, through experience, that I was tolerably attractive.
| autumn | |
n. the season when the leaves fall from the trees
In the autumn, new trials and experiences came to Meg.
The sun was low, and the heavens glowed with the splendor of an autumn sunset.
This never leaves it, so that the top is never clear not even in summer and early autumn.
| average | |
n. a standard or level that is considered to be typical
n. result by adding two or more amounts and dividing by number of amounts:
n. result by adding two or more amounts and dividing by number of amounts:
Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education and average intelligence.
I again felt rather like an individual of but average gastronomical powers sitting down to feast alone at a table spread with provisions for a hundred.
The average man don't like trouble and danger.
| ballet | |
n. a sort of theatrical representation by dancers
| banana | |
n. a long, curved fruit with a yellow skin and soft, sweet, white flesh inside
| banquet | |
n. feast, entertainment of eating and drinking
Yes, a champagne banquet until the small hours.
These they skinned and dressed so as to provide a magnificent banquet.
Signor Pastrini had promised them a banquet; he gave them a tolerable repast.
| barricade | |
n. obstacle; a line or pile of objects put together to stop people from going
The pillow was gone, but there was a barricade, nevertheless, a natural one, raised by time, absence, and change of heart.
This repulsive pillow was her especial property, being used as a weapon of defense, a barricade, or a stern preventive of too much slumber.
| bazaar | |
n. an area of small shops and people selling things, especially in West and South Asia
| belief | |
n. feeling of being certain that something exists or is true
This belief strengthened daily.
Their belief in the Magic was an abiding thing.
But do not deceive yourself into a belief that I will ever recede.
| besides | |
ad. over and above; in addition to; other than
It was moonlight and gaslight besides, and very still and serene.
I could not bear to return to the sordid village, where, besides, no prospect of aid was visible.
I dared not offer her the half-worn gloves, the creased handkerchief: besides, I felt it would be absurd.
| bizarre | |
a. fantastic; very strange and unusuall in style or appearance
| bombard | |
v. attack a place with continuous shooting or bombs
| brief | |
a. short in time, duration, length, or extent; concise
I began sometimes to pray: very brief prayers they were, but very sincere.
Catherine, contented at first, in a brief space grew irritable and restless.
I mounted Minny, and urged her to a trot; and so my brief guardianship ended.
| brilliant | |
a. full of light; shining or bright; sharp and clear in tone
brilliant throng that filled the stately halls of Count.
So brilliant and gay without, for all the world seemed abroad to welcome the first snow.
Our rooms are on the Rue de Rivoli, and sitting on the balcony, we look up and down the long, brilliant street.
| buffet | |
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