Unit 4 (grade 12) Vocabulary

the wasting away of a body organ or tissue

• incumbent

• grouse

• atrophy

• disarray

a state of agreement, harmony

• atrophy

• concord

• disarray

• incumbent

obligatory, required;

or

one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of

• grouse

• frenetic

• incumbent

• concord

disorder, confusion

• disarray

• concord

• grouse

• incumbent

a type of game bird

or

to complain or grumble

• atrophy

• disarray

• grouse

• mordant

frenzied, highly agitated

• disarray

• atrophy

• grouse

• frenetic

humorous, jesting, jolly

• grouse

• concord

• jocular

• stratagem

biting or caustic in thought

• mordant

• pusillanimous

• stratagem

• concord

comtempibly cowardly or mean spirited

• mordant

• pusillanimous

• atrophy

• incumbent

a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent to gain an end

• jocular

• atrophy

• stratagem

• mordant