unit 4 vocabulary
Terms
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- mordant
- biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh
- jocular
- humerous, jesting, jolly, joking
- stratagem
- a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end
- atrophy
- the wasting away of a body organ or tissue
- flotsam
- floating debris; homeless, impoverished people
- pusillanimous
- contemptibly cowardely or mean spirited
- disarray
- disorder, confusion; to throw into disorder
- incumbent
- obligatory, recquired; one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of
- concord
- a state of agreement, harmony, a treaty, pact or covenant
- glean
- to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers
- frenetic
- frenzied, highly agitated
- incarcerate
- to imprison, confine, jail
- bastion
- a fortified place, stronghold
- nettle
- a prickly or stinging plant; to arouse displeasure, impatience or anger; to vex or irritate severely
- recumbent
- in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting
- pecuniary
- consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money
- consummate
- complete or perfect in the highest degree;to bring to a state of completion or perfection
- ludicrous
- ridiculous, laughable, absurd
- grouse
- a type of game bird; a complaint
- exigency
- urgency, pressure; urgent demand, an emergency