vocab unit 2-3
Terms
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- to stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place
- adjourn
- a citizen of another country; foreign, strange
- alien
- having a pleasing appearance
- comely
- to make up for; to repay for services
- compensate
- loose in one's morals or behavior
- dissolute
- not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable
- erratic
- the process of driving or forcing out
- expulsion
- a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of
- feint
- food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose
- fodder
- to strengthen, build up
- fortify
- difficult or impossible to read
- illegible
- to make fun of rudely or unkindly; a rude remark of derision
- jeer
- bringing in money; profitable
- lucrative
- average, ordinary, undistinguished
- mediocre
- to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly
- proliferate
- to conquer by force, bring under complete control
- subjugate
- to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch
- sully
- to tease, torment by teasing
- tantalize
- brief and to the point
- terse
- firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back
- unflinching
- to make shorter
- abridge
- a follower supporter; attached, sticking to
- adherent
- an angry argument
- altercation
- resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent
- cherubic
- to pardon or overlook
- condone
- to disagree; disagreement
- dissent
- famous, outstanding, distinguished, projecting
- eminent
- to drive out by magic; to dispose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive
- exorcise
- to make, manufacture; to make up, invent
- fabricate
- angry
- irate
- a raider, plunderer
- marauder
- excessive fatness
- obesity
- an extremely poor person
- pauper
- to steal in small quantities
- pilfer
- a split, break, breach
- rift
- a likeness; an outward appearance; an apparition
- semblance
- to overcome, rise above
- surmount
- to bring to an end
- terminate
- commonplace; overused, stale
- trite
- to seize and hold a position by force or without right
- usurp