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English 2
Vocabulary 3 & 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| avarice | greed |
| furtive | secretive |
| bacchanalian | wild and drunken |
| extradite | to turn over to another government |
| copious | numerous |
| irascible | easily angered |
| mercenary | short and to the point; a professional soldier |
| bastion | a strong defence |
| jettison | to cast overboard |
| ostracize | to banish |
| bigot | intolerant of differences in others |
| expunge | erase |
| candid | outspoken |
| argot | special words used by a specific group of people |
| negligence | careless neglect |
| appease | to calm |
| strident | harsh sounding |
| chaos | complete disorder |
| augment | to enlarge |
| jingoism | extreme patriotism favoring an aggressive warlike foreign policy |