Level D Unit 2 Vocabulary

Adjourn -- to stop proceedings for a time; to move to another place

Alien -- a citizen of another country; foreign, strange

Comely -- having a pleasing appearance

Compensate -- to make up for; to repay for services

Dissolute -- loose in one's morals or behavior

Feint -- a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; to make a deceptive movement

Fodder -- food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose

Fortify -- to strengthen or to build up

Illegible -- not able to be read

Jeer -- to make fun of rudely or unkindly; a rude remark

Lucrative -- bringing in money; profitable

Mediocre -- average, ordinary, undistinguished

Proliferate -- to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly

Subjugate -- to conquer by force, bring under complete control

Sully -- to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch

Tantalize -- to tease, to torment by teasing

Terse -- brief and to the point

Unflinching -- firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back