Vocab Unit 4
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Vocab Unit 4
Book G
Atrophy
(n) -Wasting away of body organ or tissue; Any progressive decline or failure.
(v)-To waste away. Syn- degeneration, deterioration Ant- groth, development
Bastion
(n)- Fortified place, stronghold. Syn- Citadel, rampart, bulwark
Concord
(n)- A state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; Treaty, pact, covenant.
Ant- Disagreement, strife, discord
Consummate (adj)- Complete to
perfect in highest degree.
(v)- To bring a state on completion or perfection.
Masterful Ant- launch,
initiate, begin, kick off
Disarray (n)- Disorder,
confusion. (v)- To throw into
disorder. Syn-
Disorganization, Ant- Organization,
order
Exigency (n)- Urgency,
pressure; demand, pressing needs, an emergency.
Syn- Requirement, crisis
Flotsam (n)- Floating
debris, homeless, impoverish people.
Syn- floating wreckage
Frenetic (Adj)- Frenzied,
highly agitated. Syn- frantic,
overwrought Ant- calm,
controlled, relax
Glean (v)- To gather bit
by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left by reapers.
Syn- gripe, bellyache
Grouse (n)- A type of
game bird; complaint.
(v)- To complain, grumble.
Incarcerate (v)- To imprison,
confine, jail.
Incumbent
(adj)- Obligatory, require. (n)- One who rules specific office at
the time of spoken.
Jocular (Adj)- Humorous ,
jesting, jolly, joking.
Ludicrous (adj)- Ridiculous,
laughable, absurb.
mordant
(Adj)- biting or caustic in thought, manner or style; bitterly harsh
nettle
(N)- a prickly or stinging plant (V)- to arouse displeasure,
impatience or anger; to vex or irritate severely
pecuniary
(Adj)- consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money
Pusillanimous
(Ad)- contemptability, cowardly or means spirited
Recumbant
(Adj)- in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting
Stratagem
(N)- a scheme to out wit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end