lesson 3
Terms
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- avarice
- extreme desire for wealth; greed
- jettison
- to cast over board or off
- mercenary
- moiuated by a desire for monetary or material gain
- Bastion
- a projecting part of a fortifracation
- Picayune
- of little vaule or importance; paltry pretty mean
- martyr
- one who endures great suffering
- extradite
- to give up or deliver to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority
- connotation
- to suggest or imply in addition to literal meaning
- copious
- ample; abundant
- mood
- a stale of mind or emotion; a set of verb forms or inflections
- osmosis
- a gradual process of assimliation or absurption
- irascible
- prone to outburst or temper; easily angered
- ostracize
- to banish or exclude form a group
- voice
- expression or untturance, one of the indivdual parts or strand in a compresistion
- denotation
- to mark; indiacte to signify directly refer to specifically
- Semblance
- an outward or taken apperance
- philatelist
- people who collect and study postage stamp, post marks, and related materials
- tone
- refers to the authors attitude to tyhe reader
- bacchanalian
- a druken festivity
- furtive
- marked by stealth surreptitous