Vocabulary Workshop Unit 3 Level E

Adversary

n. an enemy, opponent

Alienate

v. to turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey

Artifice

n. a skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery

Coerce

v. to compel, force

Craven

adj. cowardly; n. a coward

Culinary

adj. of or related to cooking or the kitchen

Demise

n. a death, especially of a person in a lofty position

Exhilarate

v. to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to

Fallow

adj. plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow; n. land left unseeded; v. to plant but not seed

Harass

v. to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks

Inclement

adj. stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action

Liquidate

v. to pay a debt, settle an account; to eliminate

Muse

v. to think about in a dreamy way, ponder

Negligible

adj. so unimportant that it can be disregarded

Perpetuate

v. to make permanent or long lasting

Precedent

n. an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action

Punitive

adj. inflicting or aiming at punishment

Redress

v. to set right, remedy; n. relief from wrong or injury

Sojourn

n. a temporary stay; v. to stay for a time

Urbane

adj. refined in manner or style, suave