4-A Vocabulary Quiz

the wasting away of a body organ or tissue

any progressive decline or failure;

to waste away

• disarray

• frenetic

• atrophy

• jocular

a state of agreement, harmony; a treaty or pact

• atrophy

• concord

• grouse

• disarray

disorder, confusion

• disarray

• concord

• incumbent

• mordant

frenzied, highly agitated

• jocular

• atrophy

• disarray

• frenetic

a type of game bird

• concord

• grouse

• jocular

• incumbent

obligatory, required;

one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of

• frenetic

• grouse

• incumbent

• jocular

humorous, jesting

• jocular

• pusilanimous

• mordant

• strategem

biting or caustic in thought, manner or style

• mordant

• pusilanimous

• strategem

• disarray

contemptibly cowardly or mean spirited

• pusillanimous

• mordant

• incumbent

• grouse

a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent

• strategem

• mordant

• concord

• atrophy