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Unit4 Vocab Flashcards

(20 cards)

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Bastion means:

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(n.) A fortified place, stronghold

Synonym: citadel, rampant, bulwark, parapet

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Atrophy means:

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(n.) The wasting away of a body organ tissue; any progressive decline or failure
(v.) To waste away
Synonyms: deterioration, wither

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Concord means:

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(n.) A state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant

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Consummate means:

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(adj.) Complete or perfect in the highest degree
(v.) To bring to a state of completion or perfection
Synonym: masterful, clinch, conclude

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Disarray means:

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(n.) Disorder, confusion
(v.) To throw into disorder
Synonyms: disorganization, mess up, dishevel

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Exigency means:

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(n.) Urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need, and emergency
Synonym: requirement, crisis

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Flotsam means:

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(n.) Floating debris; homeless, impoverished people

Synonyms: floating wreckage

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Frenetic means:

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(adj.) Frenzied, highly agitated

Synonyms: frantic, overwrought

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Glean means:

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(v.) To gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers.
Synonyms: collect, cull, pick up

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Grouse means:

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(n.) A type of game bird; a complaint
(v.) to complain, grumble
Synonyms: gripe, kvetch, bellyache

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Incarcerate means:

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(v.) to imprison, confine, jail

Synonyms: intern, immure

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Incumbent means:

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(adj.) obligatory, required
(n.) one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of.
Synonyms: mandatory, necessary

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Jocular means:

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(adj.) humorous, jesting, jolly, joking

Synonyms: waggish, facetious, drill, witty

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Ludicrous means:

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(adj.) Ridiculous, laughable, absurd

Synonyms: risible, preposterous

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Mordant means:

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(adj.) biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh
Synonyms: acrimonious, acidulous, scathing

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Nettle means:

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(n.) a prickly or stinging plant
(v.) arouse displeasure
Synonyms: peeve, annoy, incense, gall, irk

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Pecuniary means:

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(adj.) consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money
Synonyms: monetary, financial

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Pusillanimous means:

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(adj.) contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited

Synonyms: craven, lily-livered

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Recumbent means:

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(adj.) in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting
Synonyms: prone, supine, inactive

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Stratagem means:

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(n.) a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end
Synonyms: ruse, trick, ploy, subterfuge