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Unit 2 Level C
Integrated English 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| antics | ridiculous and unpredictable behavior or actions |
| avowed | declared openly and without shame, acknowledged |
| banter | (v) to exchange playful remarks, tease |
| banter | (n) talk that is playful and teasing |
| bountiful | (adj) giving freely, generous; plentiful, given abundantly |
| congested | (adj) overcrowded, filled or occupied to excess |
| detriment | (n) harm or loss; injury, damage; a disadvantage; a cause of harm, injury, loss or damage |
| durable | (adj) sturdy, not easily worn out or destroyed; lasting for a long time |
| durable | (n) consumer goods used repeatedly over a series of years |
| enterprising | (adj) energetic, willing and able to start something new; showing boldness and imagination |
| frugal | (adj) economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager |
| gingerly | (adj, adv) with extreme car or caution |
| glut | (v) to provide more than is needed or wanted; to feed or fill to the point of overstuffing |
| glut | (n) an oversupply |
| incognito | (adj, adv) in a disguised state, under an assumed name or identity |
| incognito | (n) the state of being disguised; a person in disguise |
| invalidate | (v) to make valueless, take away all force or effect |
| legendary | (adj) described in well-known stories; exciting in old stories (legends) rather than in real life |
| maim | (v) to cripple, disable, injure, mar, disfigure, mutilate |
| minimize | (v) to make as small as possible, make the least of; to make smaller than before |
| oblique | (adj) slanting or sloping; not straightforward or direct |
| veer | (v) to change direction or course suddenly, turn aside, shift, swerve |
| venerate | (v) to regard with reverence, look up to with great respect |
| wanton | (adj) reckless; heartless, unjustifiable; loose in morals |
| wanton | (n) a spoiled, pampered person; one with low morals |