VOCAB UNIT 4

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Consummate

(adj) complete or perfect in the highest degree; (v) to bring to a state of completion or perfection

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Frenetic

(adj) frenzied, highly agitated

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Grouse

(n) a type of game bird; a complaint; (v) to complain, grumble

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Incarcerate

(v) to imprison, confine, jail

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Mordant

(adj) biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh

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Pusillanimous

(adj) contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited

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Stratagem

(n) a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end

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Atrophy

(n) the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; (v) to waste energy

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Bastion

(n) a fortified place, stronghold

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Concord

(n) a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant

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Disarray

(n) disorder, confusion; (v) to throw into disorder

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Exigency

(n, often pl) urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency

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Flotsam

(n) floating debris; homeless, impoverished people

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Glean

(v) to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers

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Incumbent

(adj) obligatory, required; (n) one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of

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Jocular

(adj) humorous, jesting, jolly, joking

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Ludicrous

(adj) ridiculous, laughable, absurd

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Nettle

(n) a prickly or stinging plant; (v) to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely

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Pecuniary

(adj) consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money

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Recumbent

(adj) in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting

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