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English 2
Vocabulary Lessons 3-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| avarice | greed |
| furtive | stealthy, secretive |
| bacchanalian | wild and drunk |
| extradite | to turn over or deliver to the legal jurisdiction |
| copious | numerous; large in quantity |
| irascible | easily angered |
| mercenary | a professional soldier hired by a foreign army |
| bastion | a strong defense or fort (or one likened to it) |
| jettison | to cast overboard; to discard |
| ostracize | to banish; to shut out from a group or society |
| bigot | one who is intolerant of differences in others |
| expunge | to erase |
| candid | outspoken |
| argot | special words or phrases used by a specific group of people |
| negligence | careless neglect |
| appease | to calm |
| strident | harsh sounding |
| choas | complete disorder |
| augment | to enlarge |
| jingoism | extreme patriotism, favoring an aggresive foreign warlike policy |