8th Grade Spelling Words With Definition

The word Houyhnhnm, in their tongue, signifies a horse, and, in its etymology, the perfection of nature.

The word, which I interpret the flying or floating island, is in the original Laputa, whereof I could never learn the true etymology.

There are virtues which become crimes by exaggeration.

She was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit and some exaggeration, the shocking rudeness of Mr. Darcy.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

Villefort, closely watching his countenance and his lips, awaited the result of the examination.

On closer examination, you detected something in his face that displeased, or rather that failed to please.

I shall only make one more examination of myself; when I have done that, I shall know pretty certainly when it will be that the horrors of dissolution will begin.

Amy spoke bitterly, and turned her back on the exasperating martyr at her feet.

These glances frequently exasperated the pride of Danglars, but this evening he took no notice of them.

On Monday morning the weather was in that undecided state which is more exasperating than a steady pour.

I thought you were for flying off on some excursion.

The weather was magnificent, and the excursion a treat.

Wuthering Heights was the goal of my proposed excursion.

Brethren, execute upon him the judgment written.

I am no judge of music, but Mr. Rochester is; and I heard him say her execution was remarkably good.

His letter was soon dispatched; for, though dilatory in undertaking business, he was quick in its execution.

She herself was not exempt from internal emotion, and without having done anything wrong, yet fully comprehended that Luigi was right in reproaching her.

I should have considered it as part of my duty, and the exertion would soon have been nothing.

He had performed an act of duty; made an exertion; felt his own strength to do and deny, and was on better terms with himself.

Morrel was only thirty-one, Barrois was sixty years of age; Morrel was deeply in love, and Barrois was dying with heat and exertion.

A concierge waited at the door to exhibit to visitors this monument of curiosity, once a scene of terror.

Linton giggled: the first appearance of mirth he had exhibited.

She brought it out from under her apron and exhibited it quite proudly.

Then he seemed quite inspired, though the burial customs of the ancients, to which the conversation had strayed, might not be considered an exhilarating topic.

Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt.

Noirtier made such an effort that his lips expanded into a smile.

I like a favorable reception; it expands the countenance, and those around me do not then appear so ugly.

I searched, ransacked, counted, calculated a thousand and a thousand times the income and expenditure of the family for three hundred years.

But indeed few of them extend even to that length.

As to Mr. St John, the intimacy which had arisen so naturally and rapidly between me and his sisters did not extend to him.

She returned to the hearth, and frankly extended her hand.

That night a memorable event occurred, due, no doubt, to the imprudence of some servant who had neglected to extinguish the lights.

Franz replied that he had left him at the moment they were about to extinguish the moccoli, and that he had lost sight of him in the Via Macello.

I hasped the window; I combed his black long hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes: to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, life-like gaze of exultation before any one else beheld it.

It was a very fierce storm; the sea broke strange and dangerous.

His eyes met mine so keen and fierce, I started; and then he seemed to smile.

It was all right: at present I decidedly preferred these fierce favours to anything more tender.

It is important that you should fulfil this mission in person and alone.

I shall do my duty as conscientiously as I can, and fulfil my promise to the dying man.

The burden must be carried; the want provided for; the suffering endured; the responsibility fulfilled.

I insisted on the funeral being respectable.

The funeral shall be this afternoon, and we will all go.

The morning after the funeral Tom took Huck to a private place to have an important talk.

Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind.

I thoroughly gauged his disposition from his behaviour, and saw at once it would be folly to attempt humouring him.

I wonder at the goodness of God; the generosity of my friends; the bounty of my lot.

The beginning of the poem he praised with great generosity: he even found the idea original and effective.

With the rapid instinct of selfishness, Caderousse readily perceived the solidity of this mode of reasoning; he gazed, doubtfully, wistfully, on Danglars, and then caution supplanted generosity.

It was full of the fragrance of new bread and the warmth of a generous fire.

I took leave of my noble protector, who had shown me so much favour, and made me a generous present at my departure.

The two gentlemen, and some others, were so generous and kind as to furnish me with provisions, and see me on board.

I seemed to penetrate very near a Mighty Spirit; and my soul rushed out in gratitude at His feet.

There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.

This benefit conferred gives you an unlimited claim on my gratitude, and a claim, to a certain extent, on my confidence.

Dantes observed, however, that Faria, in spite of the relief his society afforded, daily grew sadder; one thought seemed incessantly to harass and distract his mind.

My dear count, you cannot imagine how my mind is harassed.

The hour spent at Millcote was a somewhat harassing one to me.

This favourite is hated by the whole herd, and therefore, to protect himself, keeps always near the person of his leader.

They fled to the other end of the court like a herd of cattle maddened by the gadfly in early summer when the days are at their longest.

Here in Ithaca he runs even large flocks of goats on the far end of the island, and they are in the charge of excellent goat herds.

The same hostile roof now again rose before me: my prospects were doubtful yet; and I had yet an aching heart.

Franz was too far off to hear what they said; but, without doubt, nothing hostile passed, for he saw Albert disappear arm-in-arm with the peasant girl.

By and by they separated into three hostile tribes, and darted upon each other from ambush with dreadful warwhoops, and killed and scalped each other by thousands.

And now a drenching rain poured down and the rising hurricane drove it in sheets along the ground.

We fought the whole of the livelong day, nor should we ever have left off if Jove had not sent a hurricane to stay us.

Then the youth galloped thither with his iron soldiers, broke like a hurricane over the enemy, and beat down all who opposed him.

He is good and great, but severe; and, for me, cold as an iceberg.

The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.

I said nothing: I was afraid of occasioning some shock by declaring my identity.

All doubt of his identity was now at an end; his singular host evidently resided at Rome.

Let her identity, her connection with yourself, be buried in oblivion: you are bound to impart them to no living being.

I said nothing: I was afraid of occasioning some shock by declaring my identity.

All doubt of his identity was now at an end; his singular host evidently resided at Rome.

Let her identity, her connection with yourself, be buried in oblivion: you are bound to impart them to no living being.

They were ignorant, idle, and vain.

Miss Ingram, I am sure you will not fail in evincing superiority to idle terrors.

Long, quiet days she spent, not lonely nor idle, for her little world was peopled with imaginary friends, and she was by nature a busy bee.

I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Turning as from a fallen idol, she made other discoveries which rapidly dispelled her romantic illusions.

He might have had a monomania on the subject of his departed idol; but on every other point his wits were as sound as mine.

He was soon able to imitate the gait and manner of everyone in the street.

The aperture of the rock had been closed with stones, then this stucco had been applied, and painted to imitate granite.

My servants seem to imitate those you sometimes see in a play, who, because they have only a word or two to say, aquit themselves in the most awkward manner possible.

In fact as an imitation of a boy who was a confirmed invalid he was a disgraceful sight.

In educating the youth of both sexes, their method is admirable, and highly deserves our imitation.

All the blame of this should have fallen upon Jo, for her naughty imitation had been too lifelike to escape detection, and the frolicsome Lambs had permitted the joke to escape.

Perceiving me immovable, she essayed another method of showing her disrelish for her occupation.

She had some reason to put the question, for shame and pride threw double gloom over his countenance, and kept him immovable.

Good-natured, confiding, and forgiving as I had been, I became revengeful, cunning, and wicked, or rather, immovable as fate.

It is impossible for me to be impartial.

But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards Miss King.

I did not believe her to be indifferent because I wished it; I believed it on impartial conviction, as truly as I wished it in reason.

I am but the incumbent of a poor country parish: my aid must be of the humblest sort.

For about three years I heard little of him; but on the decease of the incumbent of the living which had been designed for him, he applied to me again by letter for the presentation.

Whether Noirtier understood the young man's indecision, or whether he had not full confidence in his docility, he looked uneasily at him.