Week 4 Flashcards
A fortified place, stronghold
Bastion
The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; to waste away
Atrophy
The state of agreement, harmony; a treaty, packed
Concord
Complete or perfect in the highest degree; to bring to a state of completion or perfection
Consummate
Disorder confusion; to throw into disorder
Disarray
Urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency
Exigency
Floating debris’s; homeless
Flotsam
Frenzied; highly agitated
Frenetic
To gather bit by bit; to gathersmall quantities of grain left in the field by the reapers
Glean
A type of game bird
Grouse
To imprison, confine, jail
Incarcerate
Required; one who was a specific office at the time spoken of
Incumbent
Humorous, jolly, joking
Jocular
Ridiculous, laughable, absurd
Ludicrous
Sharply or bitterly harsh
Mordant