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Unit 2 Lit Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adjourn | (verb) to stop the proceedings temporarily; move to another place |
| Alien | (noun) a citizen of another country; (adjective) foreign, strange |
| Comely | (adjective) having a pleasing appearance |
| Compensate | (verb) to make up for; to repay for services |
| Dissolute | (adjective) loose in one's morals or behavior |
| Erratic | (adjective) not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable |
| Expulsion | (noun) the process of driving or forcing out |
| Feint | (noun) a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; (verb) to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of |
| Fodder | (noun) food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designed purpose |
| Fortify | (verb) to strengthen; to build up |
| Illegibile | (adjective) difficult or impossible to read |
| Jeer | (verb) to make fun of rudely or unkindly; (noun) a rude remark of derision |
| Lucrative | (adjective) bringing in money; profitable |
| Mediocre | (adjective) average, ordinary, undistinguished |
| Proliferate | (verb) to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly |
| Subjugate | (verb) to conquer by force, bring under complete control |
| Sully | (verb) to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch |
| Tantalize | (verb) to tease, torment by teasing |
| Terse | (adjective) brief and to the point |
| Unflinching | (adjective) firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back |