This document provides a list of 10 vocabulary words for 8th grade students that are related to the word roots "-pen-" and "-pend-", meaning "to hang" or "to weigh". The words include appendix, dependable, dependent, dispense, expendable, expenditure, pendulum, pension, perpendicular, and suspend along with their part of speech and definitions.

1. This week’s vocabulary Words for 8th Grade
Word Roots: -pen- & -pend-
Week of Jan. 10, 2011
The word roots -pen- & -pend- mean “to hang” or “to weigh.”
# Word POS Definition
1 appendix noun extra material usually attached to the end of a piece of writing
2 dependable adjective trustworthy and reliable
3 dependent adjective requiring someone or something for financial, emotional, or other
support
4 dispense verb to give out; to prepare and distribute (as medicine)
5 expendable adjective easier to use up or lose than to save or rescue
6 expenditure noun something paid for; expense
7 pendulum noun something hanging from a fixed point that swings freely and
regularly, and may be used to regulate clocks or other devices
8 pension noun fixed sum paid regularly to a person
9 perpendicular adjective at right angles to a flat plane or to the horizon; upright
10 suspend verb to hang; to keep waiting
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