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FLOTSAM INCUMBENT DISARRAY BASTION
JOCULAR ATROPHY FRENETIC GROUSE
LUDICROUS GLEAN CONCORD RECUMBENT
EXIGENCY INCARCERATE MORDANT NETTLE
PUSILLANIMOUS PECUNIARY STRATEGEM CONSUMMATE
State of agreement; harmony or unit
- a pact or covenant
CONCORD
Disorder, confusion or chaos
-disorganization, untidy; dishevel
DISARRAY
Urgency, pressure; emergency, demand, or pressing need
- crisis
EXIGENCY
Frenzied, highly agitated; at a fast pace
- frantic, overwrought
FRENETIC
Ridiculous, laughable, absurd
- preposterous
LUDICROUS
Obligatory, required; One who holds a specific office at a specific time
- mandatory, necessary
INCUMBENT
Floating debris; impoverished people
- Floating wreckage
FLOTSOM
Complete or perfect in the highest degree; a state of perfection
- masterful; clinch
CONSUMMATE
Humorous, jesting, jolly, joking
- waggish, droll, witty, facetious
JOCULAR
A scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent to gain an end
- ruse, trick, ploy, subterfuge
STRATAGEM
To gather bit by bit; to gather bits of grain left by reapers
- To collect, cull, pick up
GLEAN
Contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited
-craven, lily-livered
PUSILLANIMOUS
A fortified place; stronghold
- citadel, bulwark, parapet
BASTION
Biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh; criticizing
-acrimonious, scathingMORDANT
In a reclining position, lying down; at a position of sleep or rest
- prone, prostrate, supine
RECUMBENT
A prickly or stinging plant; to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger
- vex, irritate, annoy, irkNETTLE
A type of game bird; to complain or grumble
- kvetch, bellyache
GROUSE
Consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money
- monetary, financial
PECUNIARY
To imprison, confine, jail
- immure
INCARCERATE
The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; a progressive decline or failure; to waste away
- degenerate, deteriorate, wither
ATROPHY
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