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Chapter 4 synonyms
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| A | B |
| why | is blue cheese blue? |
| ludicrous | risible, ridiculous, laughable, absurd |
| stratagem | subterfuge (what the..?), a ruse, trick, ploy |
| pusillanimous | cowardly, craven, lily-livered |
| prepossesing | winsome, engaging, captivating |
| recumbent | supine, prone, prostrate, inactive |
| cull, pick up, collect, pick up | glean |
| exigency | urgency, need, demand, requirement |
| consummate | to clinch, conclude, masterful |
| incarcerate | intern, immure, jail, |
| bastion | citadel, stronghold, rampart, bulwark |
| frenetic | frantic, frenzied |
| flotsam | floating wreckage, debris |
| incumbent | obligatory, mandatory, required |
| jocular | waggish, fecetious, droll, witty |
| pecuniary | monetary, financial |
| atrophy | degeneration, to wither, deterioration |
| grouse | to gripe, kvetch, bellyache, bitch |
| avow, affirm, avouch | asseverate |
| nettle | to peeve, vex, annoy, gall, irk |
| disarray | disorder, pandemonium, confusion, disorganization |
| caustic, acidulous, sardonic, acrimonious | mordant |
| cave in | to the subliminal messaging |
| worship | the cow |
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