Vocabulary Unit 3

Adversary

(n) an enemy, opponent

Alienate

(v) to turn away, to make indifferent or hostile, to transfer

Artifice

(n) a skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill, trickery

Coerce

(v) to compel, force

Craven

(adj) cowardly; (n) coward

Culinary

(adj) of or related to cooking of the kitchen

Demise

(n) a death, especially of a person in a lofty position

Exhilarate

(v) to enliven, cheer, give spirit to

Fallow

(adj) plowed but not seeded, inactive, reddish yellow; (n) land left unseeded

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) temporary stay

Urbane

(adj)- Refined in manner or style, Suave