Vocabulary Unit 4

Question 0

Bastion

Answer 0

A fortified place; stronghold

Question 1

Atrophy

Answer 1

The wasting away of the body organ; any progressive decline or failure. To waste away

Question 2

Concord

Answer 2

A state of agreement, harmony, unamity; a treaty, pact, covenant

Question 3

Consummate

Answer 3

Complete or perfect in the highest degree. To bring to a state of completion or perfection

Question 4

Disarray

Answer 4

Disorder, confusion. To throw into disorder

Question 5

Exigency

Answer 5

Noun (often plural)-urgency, pressure; demand, pressing need; an emergency

Question 6

Flotsam

Answer 6

Floating debris; homeless, impoverished people

Question 7

Frenetic

Answer 7

Frenzied, highly-agitated

Question 8

Glean

Answer 8

To gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers

Question 9

Grouse

Answer 9

A type of game bird; a complaint. To complain, grumble

Question 10

Incarcerate

Answer 10

To imprison, confine, jail

Question 11

Incumbent

Answer 11

Obligatory, required. One who owns a specific office at the time spoken of

Question 12

Jocular

Answer 12

Jesting, jolly, joking

Question 13

Ludicrous

Answer 13

Ridiculous, laughable, absurd

Question 14

Mordant

Answer 14

Biting or caustic in thought, manner or style; sharply or bitterly harsh

Question 15

Nettle

Answer 15

A prickly or stinging plant; to arouse displeasure

Question 16

Pecuniary

Answer 16

Consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money

Question 17

Pusillanimous

Answer 17

Contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited

Question 18

Recumbent

Answer 18

In a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting

Question 19

Stratagem

Answer 19

A scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent into gain or end