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Vocab Unit 4. Book G. Atrophy. (n) -Wasting away of body organ or tissue; Any progressive decline or failure. (v)-To waste away. Syn- degeneration, deterioration Ant- groth, development. Bastion. (n)- Fortified place, stronghold. Syn- Citadel, rampart, bulwark. Concord.
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Vocab Unit 4 Book G
Atrophy • (n) -Wasting away of body organ or tissue; Any progressive decline or failure. • (v)-To waste away. • Syn- degeneration, deterioration • Ant- groth, development
Bastion • (n)- Fortified place, stronghold. • Syn- Citadel, rampart, bulwark
Concord • (n)- A state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; Treaty, pact, covenant. • Ant- Disagreement, strife, discord
Consummate • (adj)- Complete to perfect in highest degree. • (v)- To bring a state on completion or perfection. • Masterful • Ant- launch, initiate, begin, kick off
Disarray • (n)- Disorder, confusion. • (v)- To throw into disorder. • Syn-Disorganization, • Ant- Organization, order
Exigency • (n)- Urgency, pressure; demand, pressing needs, an emergency. • Syn- Requirement, crisis
Flotsam • (n)- Floating debris, homeless, impoverish people. • Syn- floating wreckage
Frenetic • (Adj)- Frenzied, highly agitated. • Syn- frantic, overwrought • Ant- calm, controlled, relax
Glean • (v)- To gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left by reapers. • Syn- gripe, bellyache
Grouse • (n)- A type of game bird; complaint. • (v)- To complain, grumble.
Incarcerate • (v)- To imprison, confine, jail.
Incumbent • (adj)- Obligatory, require. • (n)- One who rules specific office at the time of spoken.
Jocular • (Adj)- Humorous , jesting, jolly, joking.
Ludicrous • (adj)- Ridiculous, laughable, absurb.
mordant • (Adj)- biting or caustic in thought, manner or style; bitterly harsh
nettle • (N)- a prickly or stinging plant • (V)- to arouse displeasure, impatience or anger; to vex or irritate severely
pecuniary • (Adj)- consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money
Pusillanimous • (Ad)- contemptability, cowardly or means spirited
Recumbant • (Adj)- in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting
Stratagem • (N)- a scheme to out wit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end