Vocabulary Unit 2 Word list
- adjourn:
(v) to stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place.
- alien:
(n) a citizen of another country; (adj) foreign, strange.
- comely:
(adj) having a pleasing appearance.
- compensate:
(v) to make up for; to repay for services.
- dissolute:
(adj) loose in one’s morals or behavior.
- erratic:
(adj) not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily
expected; undependable.
- expulsion:
(n) the process of driving or forcing out.
- feint:
(n) deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; (v) to make a deceptive
movement; to make a pretense of.
- fodder:
(n) food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose.
- fortify:
(v) to strengthen, build up.
- illegible:
(adj) difficult or impossible to read.
- jeer:
(v) to make fun of rudely or unkindly; (n) a rude remark of derision.
- lucrative:
(adj) bringing in money;
profitable.
- mediocre:
(adj) average, ordinary, undistinguished.
- proliferate:
(v) to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly.
- subjugate:
(v) to conquer by force, bring under complete control.
- sully:
(v) to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch.
- tantalize:
(v) to tease, torment by teasing.
- terse:
(adj) brief and to the point.
- unflinching:
(adj) firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back.