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