Vocabulary List 1 Quiz – Friday, January 6

Coherent – making sense, holding together 2) Confiscate – to take or seize by authority, usually as punishment or penalty 3) Dissipate – to dissolve; to waste away 4) Extradition (extradite) – surrendering a criminal to another jurisdiction

5) Garner – to gather or store 6) Histrionic – overly dramatic, theatrical 7) Inadvertent – done or happening unintentionally; not planned; inattentive, or resulting from inattention 8) Intervene – to come between to mediate, to occur between times

9) Malignant – harmful; evil; dangerous 10) Martyr – someone willing to sacrifice and even give his/her life for a cause; 11) Oust – to eject; to force out; to banish 12) Prevalent – widespread, in general use or acceptance

13) Redress – to correct a wrong; to make amends for 14) Reiterate – to state again 15) Relinquish – to give up doing, professing, or intending; to surrender, give in 16) Subvert (subversive) – traitorous, treasonous, corrupting, overthrowing, undermining

17) Suffrage – the right to vote 18) Turncoat – one who changes to the opposite party or faction; traitor 19) Vigilant – watchful, constantly alert 20) Wince – to flinch; to shrink back