Unit4 Vocab

Question 0

Bastion means:

Answer 0

(n.) A fortified place, stronghold

Synonym: citadel, rampant, bulwark, parapet

Question 1

Atrophy means:

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Concord means:

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Consummate means:

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Disarray means:

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Exigency means:

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Flotsam means:

Answer 6

(n.) Floating debris; homeless, impoverished people

Synonyms: floating wreckage

Question 7

Frenetic means:

Answer 7

(adj.) Frenzied, highly agitated

Synonyms: frantic, overwrought

Question 8

Glean means:

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Grouse means:

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Incarcerate means:

Answer 10

(v.) to imprison, confine, jail

Synonyms: intern, immure

Question 11

Incumbent means:

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Jocular means:

Answer 12

(adj.) humorous, jesting, jolly, joking

Synonyms: waggish, facetious, drill, witty

Question 13

Ludicrous means:

Answer 13

(adj.) Ridiculous, laughable, absurd

Synonyms: risible, preposterous

Question 14

Mordant means:

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Nettle means:

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Pecuniary means:

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

Question 17

Pusillanimous means:

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(adj.) contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited

Synonyms: craven, lily-livered

Question 18

Recumbent means:

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Stratagem means:

Answer 19

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