Vocabulary Lesson 3

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Vocabulary Lesson 3

• Test on Friday!

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Avarice

• Greed desire for wealth
• Jesse decided to become a financial advisor
  because of his avarice. He would do anything to
  get ahead, even steal other peoples money

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Avarice Greed
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Furtive (Adj.)

• Stealthy secretive
• The furry panda bears snuck a furtive look at the
  visitors to the zoo. None of the visitors knew
  they were being watched.

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Furtive
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Bacchanalian (adj)

• Wild and drunken
• Miss Swanson sincerely hopes that none of her
  students ever have bacchanalian nights. She
  would just die if she ever found out her students
  behaved in such a way.

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Extradite (verb)

• To deliver to the legal jurisdiction
• The man was apprehended on Maui, but he was
  extradited to the Philippines because that is
  where his crime took place.

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Extradite (verb)
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Copious (adj)

• Numerous large in quantity
• After I handed out copies of the textbooks, all
  the students complained that they now had a
  copious amount of books to drag around each day.
• Also, Miss Swanson has used a COPIOUS amount of
  slide designs for this presentation.

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Copious (adj)
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Irascible (adj)

• Easily angered
• People who use steroids recreationally often
  become irascible.

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Irascible
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Mercenary (n.)

• A professional soldier hired by a foreign army
• The king hired a mercenary to kill his cheating
  wife.

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Mercenary
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Bastion (noun)

• A strong defense or fort
• The castle was a strong bastion for the French
  soldiers.

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Bastion
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Jettison (verb)

• To cast overboard to discard
• When the ship was going down, the crew began to
  jettison unnecessary items off the boat to try to
  stay afloat a bit longer.

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Jettison
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Ostracize (verb)

• To shut out from a group to banish from a group
• The girl was ostracized from her basketball team
  because she started hanging out with the
  volleyball players.

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Ostracize (v)