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lesson 3/4
vocab lessons 3 and 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| avarice | greed;desire for wealth |
| furtive | stealthy;secretive |
| bacchanalian | wild and drunken |
| extradite | to turn over or deliver to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority |
| copious | numerous;large in quantity |
| irascible | easily angered |
| mercenary | a professional soldier hired by a foriegn army |
| bastion | a strong defence 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 differneces in others |
| expunge | to erase or eliminate |
| candid | outspoken;blunt |
| argot | special words or phrases used by a specific group of people |
| negligence | careless neglect, often resulting in ingury |
| appease | to calm;to make satisfied(often only temporarily) |
| strident | harsh sounding;grating |
| chaos | complete disorder |
| augment | to enlarge;to increase in amount or intensity |
| jingoism | extreme, chauvinistic patriotism, often favoring and aggresive warlike foreign policy |