December vocab

• (of body tissue or an organ) waste away, especially as a result of the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution.

• frenetic

• • Atrophy

• jocular

• pecuniary

• so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

• incarcerate

• • Banal

• murky

• verbiage

• a projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions.

• stratagem

• • bastion

• verdant

• atrophy

• a state of disorganization or untidiness.

• incarcerate

• • Disarray

• mordant

• the wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on or washed up by the sea.

• propinquity

• • flotsam

• utopian

• fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way.

• piquant

• • frenetic

• incumbent

• extract (information) from various sources.

• incarcerate

• glean

• unwonted

• imprison or confine.

• bastion

• • incarcerate

• nefarious

• necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility.

• glean

• • incumbent

• pusillanimous

• fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful.

• atrophy

• • jocular

• recumbent