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vocab words week of 9/22
| 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 gov't or authority |
| copious | numerous; large in quanity |
| irascible | easily angered |
| mercenary | a professional soldier hired by a foreign army |
| bastion | a strong defense or fort |
| jettison | to cast overboard; to discard |
| ostracize | to banish; to shut out from a group or society by common consent |