Unit 7 Flashcards
Beneficent
Adjective
•charitable, relating to acts of kindness
Austere
Adjective
- Severe in manner
- Simple/plain
- Sour in flavor
Cadaverous
Adjective
•pale in facial color, looking sick
Concoct
Transitive verb (with DO)
- to prepare by combining ingredients
- to make up, to form from the mind
Crass
Adjective
•crude in taste, manners or language
Debase
Transitive verb (has a DO)
•to lower in quality or value
** often uses a reflexive pronoun as the DO (themselves, herself, yourself)
Desecrate
Transitive verb (has a DO)
- to violate, offend
- to treat with disrespect
Disconcert
Transitive verb ( a person typically the DO, the one receiving the act)
- to disturb the composure of
- to upset, rattle
Grandiose
Adjective
•grand in an impressive way
Inconsequential
Adjective
•unimportant
Infraction
Noun
•the breaking of rules/laws
** often followed by a prepositional phrase starting with of
**his infraction of x (the laws)
Mitigate
Transitive verb (whatever js receiving the action of being reduced is the DO)
- to make less of
- to soften
- to relieve
Pillage
Transitive verb
•to take goods by force
Noun
•something taken by force
Prate
Intransitive Verb (NO DO)
•to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless way
Punctilious
Adjective
- precise, fussy, attentive to details
- conforming to what is socially acceptable in conduct
