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Fundies Vocab 3
Fundamentals of Writing Vocab Unit 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adversary | enemy, opponent |
| Alienate | to turn away, make indifferent or hostile |
| Artifice | skillful or ingenous device, a clever trick or skill, trickery |
| Coerce | compel, force |
| Craven | cowardly, a coward |
| Culinary | related to cooking or the kitchen |
| Delete | erase, wipe out, cut out |
| Demise | a death, especially of a person in a lofty position |
| Exhilarate | to enliven, cheer; give spirit or livliness to |
| Fallow | plowed but not seeded, inactive, reddish-yellow |
| Harass | to disturb, worry; to touble by repeated attacks |
| Inclement | Stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action |
| Muse | to think about in a dreamy way |
| Negligible | so unimportant that it can be disregarded |
| Perpetuate | to make permanent or long-lasting |
| Precedent | an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action |
| Punitive | inflicting or aiming at punishment |
| Redress | to set right, remedy; relief from wrong or injury |
| Sojourn | a temporary stay, to stay for a time |
| Urbane | Refined in manner or style |