English IV Unit IV Vocab Review

(n) a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant

• concord

• grouse

• flotsam

• bastion

(adj) in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting

• recumbent

• incumbent

• jocular

• exigency

(n) a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end

• stratagems

• bastion

• consummate

• frenetic

(n) a type of game bird; a complaint; (v) to complain, grumble

• frenetic

• concord

• grouse

• glean

(adj) humorous, jesting, jolly, joking

• jocular

• exigency

• recumbent

• pusillanimous

(n) floating debris; homeless, impoverished people

• grouse

• flotsam

• mordant

• bastion

(v) to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers

• grouse

• nettled

• glean

• flotsam

(v) to imprison, confine, jail

• mordant

• bastion

• incarcerate

• jocular

(adj) consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money

• consummate

• pecuniary

• exigency

• stratagems

(adj) biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh

• atrophy

• frenetic

• disarray

• mordant