Unit 4 Quiz

the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; to waste away

• atrophy

• consummate

• incarcerate

• nettle

a fortified place, stronghold

• bastion

• exigency

• flotsam

• stratagem

complete or perfect in the highest degree; to bring to a state of completion or perfection

• consummate

• glean

• recumbent

• mordant

disorder, confusion; to throw into disorder

• disarray

• nettle

• atrophy

• exigency

a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant

• concord

• mordant

• pecuniary

• recumbant

urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need, an emergency

• exigency

• frenetic

• incumbent

• concord

floating debris; homeless, impoverished people

• flotsam

• bastion

• jocular

• pecuniary

frenzied, highly agitated

• frenetic

• bastion

• jocular

• mordant

to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in the field by the reapers

• glean

• atrophy

• jocular

• disarrary

a type of game bird; a complaint. to complain, to grumble

• grouse

• nettle

• concord

• exigency