Vocab Week 4 Flashcards
A fortified place, stronghold
Bastion
The wasting away of the a body ordain or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; to waste away
Atrophy
A state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a ready, pacts covenant
Concord (n)
A: disagreement, strife, discord
Complete or perfect in the highest degree; to bring to a state of completion or perfection
Consummate (adj)
S: masterful; to clinch, conclude
A: to launch, initiate, begin, kick off
Disorder, confusion; to throw into disorder
Disarray (n)
S: disorganization; dishevel, mess up
A: organizations order, tidiness
Urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency
Exigency (n, often pl)
S: requirement, crisis
Floating debris; homeless impoverished people
Flotsam (n)
S: floating wrecking
Frenzied, highly agitated
Frenetic (adj)
S: frantic, overwrought
A: calm, controlled, leisurely
Fo gather bit by bit; to gather s quantities of grain led in a field by the reapers
Glean (v)
S: collect, cull, pick up
A type of game bird; a complaint; (v) to complain, grumble
Grouse
S: gripe, kvetch, bellyache
To imprison, confine, jail
Incarcerate (v)
S: intern, insure
A: liberate, release, free
Obligatory, required; (n) one who
Holds a specific office at the time spoken of
Incumbent (adj)
S: Mandatory, necessary
A: optional, unnecessary
Humorous, heating, jolly, joking
Jocular (adj)
S: waggish, facetious, droll, witty
A: humorless, solemn, grave, earnest
Ridiculous, laughable, absurd
Ludicrous (adj)
S: risible, preposterous
A: hear trending, poignant, pathetic
Biting or caustic I thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh
Mordant
S: acrimonious, acidulous, sardonic, scathing
A: bland, mild, gentle, soothing
