Unit 8

Question 1

Arrant

Answer 1

(Adj) thoroughgoing, out-and-out. Shameless, blatant

Question 2

Badinage

Answer 2

(N) light, playful conversation

Question 3

Conciliate

Answer 3

(V) to overcome the distrust of, win over; to appease, pacify; reconcile

Question 4

Countermand

Answer 4

(V) to cancel or reverse one order with one that is contrary to the first

Question 5

Echelon

Answer 5

(N) grades or ranks in an organization or field

Question 6

Exacerbate

Answer 6

(V) to make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful

Question 7

Fatuous

Answer 7

(Adj) stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way

Question 8

Irrefutable

Answer 8

(Adj) impossible to disprove; beyond argument

Question 9

Juggernaut

Answer 9

(N) a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes anything in its path

Question 10

Lackadaisical

Answer 10

(Adj) lacking in spirit, halfhearted

Question 11

Litany

Answer 11

(N) prayer of short appeals to God; a repetitive chant; a long list

Question 12

Macabre

Answer 12

(Adj) grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing; having death as subject

Question 13

Paucity

Answer 13

(N) an inadequate quantity, scarcity

Question 14

Portend

Answer 14

(V) to give advanced warning of; foretell

Question 15

Raze

Answer 15

(V) to tear down, destroy completely; cut or scrape off or out

Question 16

Recant

Answer 16

(V) to withdraw a statement to which one has previously been commited

Question 17

Allege

Answer 17

(V) to assert without proof or confirmation

Question 18

Saturate

Answer 18

(V) to soak, to satisfy fully

Question 19

Saturnine

Answer 19

(Adj) Cold or sluggish and mood or disposition

Question 20

slough

Answer 20

(V) to get rid of something unnecessary