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Vocabulary List
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Frenzied, frantic, highly agitated | Frenetic |
| Disorder, confusion; To throw into disorder | Disarray |
| The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; Any progressive decline or failure; To waste away | Atrophy |
| To affirm earnestly and with emphasis | Asseverate |
| To gather bit by bit; To gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers | Glean |
| Complete or perfect in the highest degree; To bring to a state of completion or perfection | Consummate |
| A type of game bird; A complaint; To complain, grumble | Grouse |
| A fortified place, stronghold | Bastion |
| Urgency, pressure; Urgent demand, pressing need; An emergency | Exigency |
| Floating debris; Homeless, impoverished people | Flotsam |
| A state of agreement, harmony | Concord |
| Pleasing, tending to create a favorable impression | Prepossessing |
| In a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting | Recumbent |
| To imprison, confine; To jail | Incarcerate |
| Ridiculous, laughable, absurd | Ludicrous |
| Biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; Sharply or bitterly harsh | Mordant |
| Contemptibly, cowardly, or mean-spirited | Pusillanimous |
| A prickly or stinging plant; To arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; To vex or irritate severely | Nettle |
| A scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end | Stratagem |
| Obligatory, required; One who holds a specific office at the time spoken of | Incumbent |
| Consisting of or measured in money; Of or related to money | Pecuniary |
| Humorous, jesting, jolly, joking | Jocular |