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Vocab Chapter 3 - 4
Vocabulary words for Chapters 3 through 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Avarice | Greed |
| 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 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 |
| Bigot | One who is intolerant of differences in others |
| Expunge | To erase or eliminate |
| Candid | Outspoken, blunt |
| Argot | Jargon |
| Negligence | Careless neglect |
| Appease | To calm |
| Strident | Harsh sounding; grating |
| Chaos | Complete disorder |
| Augment | To enlarge |
| Jingoism | Extreme, chauvinistic patriotism |