Vocabulary Unit 8

Question 0

Arrant

Answer 0

Thoroughgoing, out-and-out; shameless, blatant

Question 1

Allege

Answer 1

To assert without proof or confirmation

Question 2

Badinage

Answer 2

Light and playful conversation

Question 3

Conciliate

Answer 3

To overcome the distrust of, win over; to appease, pacify; to reconcile, make consistent

Question 4

Countermand

Answer 4

To conceal or reverse one order or command with another that is contrary to the first

Question 5

Echelon

Answer 5

One of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity; and organized military unit; a step-like formation or arrangement

Question 6

Exacerbate

Answer 6

To make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful

Question 7

Fatuous

Answer 7

Stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way

Question 8

Irrefutable

Answer 8

Impossible to disprove; beyond argument

Question 9

Juggernaut

Answer 9

A massive an inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path

Question 10

Litany

Answer 10

A prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with responses from the congregation; any repetitive chat; a long list

Question 11

Lackadaisical

Answer 11

Lacking spirit or interest, half-hearted

Question 12

Macabre

Answer 12

Grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject

Question 13

Paucity

Answer 13

An inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth

Question 14

Portend

Answer 14

To indicate beforehand that something is about to happen; to give advanced warning of

Question 15

Raze

Answer 15

To tear down, destroy completely; to cut or scrape off or out

Question 16

Recant

Answer 16

To withdraw the statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract

Question 17

Saturate

Answer 17

To soak thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully

Question 18

Saturnine

Answer 18

Of gloomy or surly disposition; cold or sluggish in mood

Question 19

Slough

Answer 19

To cast off, discard; to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary; to plod through as of through mud. A mire; a state of depression