LESSON THREE

AVARICE n.

• The man had such an avarice philosophy that he stole the orphans money.

FURTIVE adj.

• The agent moved furtively throughout the ambassador's shed.

BACCHANALIAN ADJ.

• The man seemed to walk through town in a bacchanalian manor. But little did they know the cause of this listed gait was a slit throat.

EXTRADITE V.

• They extradited the drug trafficker to his home country, assuring he would be back.

COPIOUS ADJ.

• There was copious evidence to lock up the murdered, but he went free on account of a technicality.

IRASCIBLE ADJ.

• He was so easily irascible that when the room service arrived cold he burned the building to the ground.

MERCENARY N.

• The mercenary showed no remorse in killing the POW's, after all, money is money. No matter how steeped in blood it is.

BASTION N.

• The last bastion of the resistance's defense laid destroyed.

JETTISON V.

• They jettisoned the body of captain Miller, space be a cruel mistress.

OSTRACIZE V.

• They ostracized the weakling because of his inability to be useful.