Vocab Unit 4 Flash Cards

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- The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure
  
  to waste away
- atrophy
- A fortified place, stronghold
- Bastion
- A state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant
- 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; homeless, impoverished people
- Flotsam
- Frenzied, highly agitated
- Frenetic
- To gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers
- Glean
- A type of game bird; a complaint
  
  To complain, grumble
- Grouse
- To imprison, confine, jail
- Incarcerate
- Obligatory, required
  
  One who holds a specific office at the time spoken of
- Incumbent
- Humorous, jesting, jolly, joking
- Jocular
- Ridiculous, laughable, absurd
- Ludicrous
- Biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh
- Mordant
- A prickly or stinging plant
  
  To arouse the displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely
- Nettle
- Consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money
- Pecuniary
- Contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited
- Pusillanimous
- In a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting
- Recumbent
- A scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end
- Stratagem