Vocab Unit 4 Flash Cards

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Title: Vocab Unit 4
Description: english vocab level 4
Number of Cards: 20
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Author: wilscia1313
Created: 2012-02-16
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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