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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

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