Spelling / Vocabulary List 14
Directions: You will be responsible for knowing how to spell all 20 words on this
list. However, you will only be required to know the definitions of the
ten words listed at the bottom.
1. motorized
2. professional
3. glacier
4. recover
5. basic
6. require
7. express
8. interrupt
9. splendid
10. confident
11. resign – voluntarily leave a job or other position
12. preserve – to maintain something in its original or existing state
13. profit – a financial gain, advantage or benefit, especially from an investment
14. laborer – a person doing unskilled manual work for wages
15. muster – to collect or assemble
16. frantic – wild or distraught with fear, anxiety, or other emotion
17. immigrant – a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
18. inform – to give someone fact or information
19. immense – extremely large
20. ethnic – relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national,
tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background