Unit4 Vocab Flashcards
Bastion means:
(n.) A fortified place, stronghold
Synonym: citadel, rampant, bulwark, parapet
Atrophy means:
(n.) The wasting away of a body organ tissue; any progressive decline or failure
(v.) To waste away
Synonyms: deterioration, wither
Concord means:
(n.) A state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant
Consummate means:
(adj.) Complete or perfect in the highest degree
(v.) To bring to a state of completion or perfection
Synonym: masterful, clinch, conclude
Disarray means:
(n.) Disorder, confusion
(v.) To throw into disorder
Synonyms: disorganization, mess up, dishevel
Exigency means:
(n.) Urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need, and emergency
Synonym: requirement, crisis
Flotsam means:
(n.) Floating debris; homeless, impoverished people
Synonyms: floating wreckage
Frenetic means:
(adj.) Frenzied, highly agitated
Synonyms: frantic, overwrought
Glean means:
(v.) To gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers.
Synonyms: collect, cull, pick up
Grouse means:
(n.) A type of game bird; a complaint
(v.) to complain, grumble
Synonyms: gripe, kvetch, bellyache
Incarcerate means:
(v.) to imprison, confine, jail
Synonyms: intern, immure
Incumbent means:
(adj.) obligatory, required
(n.) one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of.
Synonyms: mandatory, necessary
Jocular means:
(adj.) humorous, jesting, jolly, joking
Synonyms: waggish, facetious, drill, witty
Ludicrous means:
(adj.) Ridiculous, laughable, absurd
Synonyms: risible, preposterous
Mordant means:
(adj.) biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh
Synonyms: acrimonious, acidulous, scathing
