Vocabulary Lesson 3 Test on Friday Avarice Greed

Vocabulary Lesson 3 Test on Friday!

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 people’s money…

Avarice; Greed

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.

Furtive

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.

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.

Extradite (verb)

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.

Copious (adj)

Irascible (adj) • Easily angered • People who use steroids recreationally often become irascible.

Irascible

Mercenary (n. ) ►A professional soldier hired by a foreign army ► The king hired a mercenary to kill his cheating wife.

Mercenary

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

Bastion

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.

Jettison

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.

Ostracize (v)