Week 4 Flashcards

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A fortified place, stronghold

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Bastion

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The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; to waste away

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Atrophy

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The state of agreement, harmony; a treaty, packed

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Concord

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Complete or perfect in the highest degree; to bring to a state of completion or perfection

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Consummate

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Disorder confusion; to throw into disorder

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Disarray

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Urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency

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Exigency

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Floating debris’s; homeless

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Flotsam

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Frenzied; highly agitated

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Frenetic

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To gather bit by bit; to gathersmall quantities of grain left in the field by the reapers

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Glean

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9
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A type of game bird

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Grouse

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10
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To imprison, confine, jail

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Incarcerate

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Required; one who was a specific office at the time spoken of

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Incumbent

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Humorous, jolly, joking

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Jocular

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Ridiculous, laughable, absurd

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Ludicrous

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Sharply or bitterly harsh

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Mordant

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A prickly are stinging plant; to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger

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Nettle

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Consisting of or measured in money

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Pecuniary

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cowardly or mean-spirited

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Pusillanimous

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In a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting

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Recumbent

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A scheme or strategy to outwit an deceiving opponent

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Stratagem