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MBSID
Vocab
Term | Definition |
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idle | Not working, active, or being used |
Fetched | To go after and bring back. |
Garrison | A military camp, fort, or base. |
Peppered | To hit repeatedly with your fist or with objects. |
Constitutes | To make up or form. |
Prevail | To defeat an opponent especially in a long or difficult contest |
Agitators | A person who tries to get people angry |
Blurts | To say suddenly and without thinking about how people will react |
Stripping | To remove everything from |
Bayonet | A long knife attached to the end of a rifle |
Subversion | To try to destroy a political system |
Vile | Bad or Unpleasant |
Meddle | To become involved in something that you are not wanted in |
Clutched | To hold on tightly |
Commission | Position in the military |
Resign | To give up |
Scornful | Showing Disrespect |
Churning | To mix with force |
Clambering | To climb awkwardly |
Stock | The part of a gun that is held against your shoulder |
Petition | Document that people sign to make an agreement |
Skirmished | An unplanned fight during a war |
Speculating | To think about something and make guesses about it |
Apprentice | A person who learns a job or skill for working for a fixed a period of time for someone. |
Thrash | to WHIP VERY hard |
Enlistment | To sign up |
Recalcitrance | Stubbornly refusing to obey |
Forage | To search for something |
Grimaced | A facial expression in which your mouth is twisted |
Retaliates | To do something bad as revenge |
Sedition | The crime of saying writing or doing something that encourages people to disobey |
Seines | Large Fishing nets |
Turmoil | A state of confusion or disorder |
Commisary | A store that sells basic household items and food |
Depreciation | A decrease in the value of something |
Fusillade | A large number of quickly fired shots |
Forceps | A medical tool used to grasp things |
Malitia | People trained like armed fores but are not armed forces |
Insignia | A badge or sign showing that a person is a member of a group |
Badgered | To bother or annoy |
Epidemic | A breakout of a disease |
Compunction | Feeling guilt or regret |
Unscrupulous | Unfair |
Shirk | To avoid doing a required task |
Decisive | Able to quickly make choices |
Reflected | To show the image of something on a surface |
Floundering | To move awkwardly |
Foreboding | A feeling that something bad is going to happen |
Defection | To leave a party and go to its rival |
Clemency | Kind or Merciful treatment of someone who could be given harsh punishment |
Whet | To make sharper or stronger |
Rasping | To speak in a way that sounds rough or harsh |