Vocab Booster SAT Textbook Vocabulary, Reading Unit 4 Practice, p. 102-4

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  1. ammunition
    projectiles to be fired from a gun
  2. artillery
    large but transportable armament
  3. bewilderment
    confusion resulting from failure to understand
  4. casualty
    someone injured or killed in an accident
  5. commission
    charge with a task
  6. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  7. decisive
    determining or having the power to determine an outcome
  8. diplomat
    an official engaged in international negotiations
  9. discharge
    cause to go off
    Here, shooting from a gun or piece of artillery.
  10. embark
    proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
  11. emit
    give off, send forth, or discharge
  12. eve
    the day before
  13. industrialize
    organize into systematic production or manufacture
  14. lofty
    of imposing height; especially standing out above others
  15. mobilize
    get ready for war
  16. naval
    connected with an organization of military vessels
  17. optimistic
    hopeful that the best will happen in the future
  18. port of call
    any port where a ship stops except its home port
  19. prevail
    prove superior
  20. prohibit
    command against
  21. projection
    a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
  22. scarcely
    only a very short time before
  23. solemn
    dignified and somber in manner or character
  24. survey
    determining opinions by interviewing people
  25. telegraph
    apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire
  26. trench
    any long ditch cut in the ground
  27. trench warfare
    armed combat in which troops fight from large ditches
  28. ultimatum
    a final peremptory demand
  29. vindication
    the justification for some act or belief
  30. warfare
    the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
  31. whale
    hunt for largest mammals of the oceans
  32. front line
    the line along which opposing armies face each other
  33. shell shock
    a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare
  34. inquire
    ask about
  35. industrialization
    the development of commercial enterprise
  36. paltry
    contemptibly small in amount or size
  37. appalling
    causing shock, dismay, or horror
  38. stockpile
    a storage pile accumulated for future use
  39. prompt
    serve as the inciting cause of
  40. toll
    value measured by what must be done to obtain something
Created on Wed Apr 01 18:28:55 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Apr 02 20:27:31 EDT 2020)

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