Vocab. 4-6 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
atrophy | waste away |
bastion | stronghold |
concord | harmony agreement |
consummate | complete, perfected, masterful |
disarray | disorder,dishevel |
exigency | urgency, emergency |
flotsam | floating wreckage |
frenetic | frantic |
glean | gather bit by bit |
grouse | grumble, complain |
incarcerate | imprison |
incumbent | required, (Noun)the one currently in office |
jocular | joking, droll, witty |
ludicrous | ridiculous |
mordant | biting or harsh |
nettle | annoy, a stinging plant |
pecuniary | financial |
pusillanimous | cowardly |
recumbent | reclining position |
stratagem | ploy, ruse |
acuity | sharpness (of mind) |
delineate | portray, sketch, depict |
depraved | perverted |
enervate | weaken |
esoteric | cryptic, arcane |
fecund | fertile |
fiat | edict |
figment | invention, fancy |
garner | accumulate |
HALLOW | BLESS, consecrate |
idiosyncrasy | quirk, eccentricity |
mundane | earthly, humdrum, routine |
nuance | subtle or slight variation, shade |
overweening | conceited arrogant |
penchant | strong inclination |
reputed | alleged, supposed, by reputation |
sophistry | fallacy, unsound reasoning |
sumptuous | costly, rich |
ubiquitous | omnipresent , universal |
abject | wretched,degraded ABJECT POVERTY |
agnostic | doubter |
complicity | being an accomplice, connivance HE WAS COMPLICIT IN THE CRIME. |
derelict | vagrant, abandoned THE TIDE WASHED IN A DERELICT SCHOONER. |
diatribe | bitter verbal attack, tirade |
effigy | likeness of a despised person BURNED IN EFFIGY |
equity | justice, equalness, the value of property after deducting the mortgage owed. YOUR HOME EQUITY |
inane | silly |
indictment | formal accusation |
indubitable | not to be doubted (undoubtable) |
intermittent | stopping and starting, fitful INTERMITTENT SHOWERS |
moot | debatable, questionable A MOOT POINT |
motif | principal idea, theme |
neophyte | novice NEWBIE |
perspicacity | keenness in observing and understanding, acuity |
plenary | complete, unrestricted PLENARY INDULGENCE |
surveillance | scrutiny, watch |
sylvan | forested, pertaining to the woods PENNSYLVANIA |
testy | peevish, easily irritated |
travesty | farce, grossly inferior imitation TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE |
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