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lesson 3
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| greed; desire for wealth | avarice |
| stealthy; secretive | furtive |
| wild and drunken | bacchanalian |
| to turn over or deliver to the legal jurisdiction of another government of authority | extradite |
| numerous; large in quality | copious |
| easily angered | irascible |
| a professional soldier hired by a foreign army | mercenary |
| a strong defense or fort (or one likened to it) | bastion |
| to cast overboard ; to discard | jettison |
| to banish; to shut out from a group or society by common consent | ostracize |