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Explore the importance of concord and consummate skills amidst societal atrophy. Learn how to navigate exigencies and disarray with strategic precision. Rise above pusillanimous challenges and glean wisdom to fortify your bastion of success.
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Vocab Unit 4 Book G
Atrophy • (n) -Wasting away of body organ or tissue; Any progressive decline or failure. • (v)-To waste away. • Syn- degeneration, deterioration • Ant- groth, development
Bastion • (n)- Fortified place, stronghold. • Syn- Citadel, rampart, bulwark
Concord • (n)- A state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; Treaty, pact, covenant. • Ant- Disagreement, strife, discord
Consummate • (adj)- Complete to perfect in highest degree. • (v)- To bring a state on completion or perfection. • Masterful • Ant- launch, initiate, begin, kick off
Disarray • (n)- Disorder, confusion. • (v)- To throw into disorder. • Syn-Disorganization, • Ant- Organization, order
Exigency • (n)- Urgency, pressure; demand, pressing needs, an emergency. • Syn- Requirement, crisis
Flotsam • (n)- Floating debris, homeless, impoverish people. • Syn- floating wreckage
Frenetic • (Adj)- Frenzied, highly agitated. • Syn- frantic, overwrought • Ant- calm, controlled, relax
Glean • (v)- To gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left by reapers. • Syn- gripe, bellyache
Grouse • (n)- A type of game bird; complaint. • (v)- To complain, grumble.
Incarcerate • (v)- To imprison, confine, jail.
Incumbent • (adj)- Obligatory, require. • (n)- One who rules specific office at the time of spoken.
Jocular • (Adj)- Humorous , jesting, jolly, joking.
Ludicrous • (adj)- Ridiculous, laughable, absurb.
mordant • (Adj)- biting or caustic in thought, manner or style; bitterly harsh
nettle • (N)- a prickly or stinging plant • (V)- to arouse displeasure, impatience or anger; to vex or irritate severely
pecuniary • (Adj)- consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money
Pusillanimous • (Ad)- contemptability, cowardly or means spirited
Recumbant • (Adj)- in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting
Stratagem • (N)- a scheme to out wit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end