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Unit Three Vocab Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allot | To assign or distribute in shares or portions |
| Amass | To bring together, to collect, to gather, to assemble |
| Audacious | Bold, adventurous. recklessly daring |
| Comply | To yield to a request or demand |
| Devoid | Not having or using, lacking |
| Elite | The choice part of a group of people or things, superior |
| Grapple | An iron hook used to grab and hold/ to come in grips with, to wrestle, to fight with |
| Incapacitate | To deprive of strength or ability, to make legally ineligible |
| Instigate | To urgent on, to stir up, start, incite |
| Longevity | Long life, long duration, length of life |
| Myriad | In very great numbers, a very great number |
| Perspective | A point of view or standpoint from which topics are viewed |
| Perturb | To trouble,make uneasy, to disturb greatly, to confuse |
| Prodigious | Immense, extraordinary in bulk, size or degree |
| Relevant | Connected with or related to the matter at hand |
| Skittish | Extremely nervous and easily frightened, shy or timid,extremely cautious |
| Tether | A rope of chain used to fasten something to a fixed object, to fasten with a rope or chain |
| Unison | A sounding together, agreement, accord |
| Vie | To complete, to strive for victory or superiority |
| Willful | Stubbornly self-willed, done on purpose,deliberate |