Unit 3- Vocabulary Workshop Flashcards
Alienate
(V.) to turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey.
Artifice
(N.) is skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; the clever skill; Trickery
Coerce
(V.) to compel, force
Craven
(Adj.) cowardly
(n.)A coward
Culinary
(Adj.) of or related to cooking or the kitchen
Demise
(N.) A death, especially of a person in a lofty position.
Exhilarate
(V.) to live in, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to
Fallow
(Adj.) plowed but not seated, inactive; reddish-yellow
(N.) Land left unseeded
(V.) to plow but not seed.
Harass
(V.) to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks
Inclement
(Adj.) stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action
Liquidate
(V.) to pay a debt, settle an account; to eliminate
Muse
(V.) to think about in a dreamy way, ponder
Negligible
(Adj.) so unimportant that it can be disregarded
Perpetuate
(V.) to make permanent or long-lasting
Precedent
(N.) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action