Sadlier Oxford Level G Units 4-6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Atrophy | (n) The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline of failure; (v) to waste away |
| Bastion | (n) A fortified place, strong hold |
| Concord | (n) A state of agreement, harmony, unanimity, a treaty, pact, covenant |
| Consummate | (adj) complete or perfect in the highest degree; (v) to bring to a state of completion |
| Disarray | (n) Disorder, confusion; (v) to throw into disorder |
| Exigency | (n, often pl) Urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency |
| Flotsam | (n) Floating debris; homeless, impoverished people |
| Frenetic | (adj) Frenzied, highly agitated |
| Glean | (v) To gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers |
| Grouse | (n) A type of game bird; a complaint; (v) to complain, grumble |
| Incarcerate | (v) To imprison, confine, jail |
| Incumbent | (adj) Obligatory, required; (n) one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of |
| Jocular | (adj) Humorous, jesting, jolly, joking |
| Ludicrous | (adj) Ridculous, laughable, absurd |
| Mordant | (adj) Biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or 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 realated to money |
| Pusillanimous | (adj) Contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited |
| Recumbent | (adj) In a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting |
| Stratagem | (n) A scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end |
| acuity | (n.) sharpness [particularly of mind or senses] |
| delineate | (v.) to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially |
| depraved | (adj.) marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral principles |
| enervate | (v.) to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble, hamstring |
| esoteric | (adj.) intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret |
| fecund | (adj.) fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive |
| fiat | (n.) an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness |
| figment | (n.) a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion |
| garner | (v.) to acquire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use |
| hallow | (v.) to set apart as holy or scared, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere |
| idiosyncrasy | (n.) a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify |
| ignominy | (n.) shame and disgrace |
| mundane | (adj.) earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary |
| nuance | (n.) a subtle or slight variation [as in color, meaning, quality], delicate gradation or shade or difference |
| overweening | (adj.) conceited, presumptuous; excessive, immoderate |
| penchant | (n.) a strong attraction or inclination |
| reputed | (adj.) according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation; (part.) alleged |
| sophistry | (n.) reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy |
| sumptuous | (adj.) costly, rich, magnificent |
| abject | (adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved |
| ubiquitous | (adj.) present or existing everywhere |
| agnostic | (n.) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; (adj.) without faith, skeptical |
| complicity | (n.) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice |
| derelict | (n.) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj.) left abandoned; neglectful of duty |
| diatribe | (n.) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
| effigy | (n.) a crude image of a despised person |
| equity | (n.) the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value of a property value of a property above and beyond any other mortgage or other claim |
| inane | (adj.) silly, empty of meaning or value |
| indictment | (n.) a act of accusing; a formal accusation |
| indubitable | (adj.) certain, not to be doubted or denied |
| intermittent | (adj.) stopping and beginning again, sporadic |
| moot | (adj.) open to discussion and debate, unresolved; (v.) to bring up for discussion; (n.) a hypothetical law case argued by students |
| motif | (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design |
| neophyte | (n.) a new convert, beginner, novice |
| perspicacity | (n.) keenness in observing and understanding |
| plenary | (adj.) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members |
| surveillance | (n.) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation |
| sylvan | (adj.) pertaining to or characteristic or forest; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody |
| testy | (adj.) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation |
| travesty | (n.) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v.) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion |
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