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Lesson 3 Vocab
SAT Vocab
Question | Answer |
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avarice | n. greed; desire for wealth |
furtive | adj. stealthy; secretive |
bacchanalian | adj. wild and drunken |
extradite | v. to turn over or deliever to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority |
copious | adj. numerous; large in quantity |
irascible | adj. easily angered |
mercenary | n. a professional soldier hired by a foreign army |
bastion | n. a strong defense or fort or one likened to it) |
jettison | v. To cast overboard; to discard |
ostracize | v. to banish; to shut out from a group or scoiety by common consent |