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.