Unit 8 Vocab Flashcards
(20 cards)
To assert without proof or confirmation
Assert
Thoroughing out and out shameless
Arrant
Light and playful conversation
Badinage
To overcome the distrust of. Win over to appease. Pacif or reconcile. Make consistent
Conciliate
To cancel or reverse one order or command with another Taft is contrary to the first
Countermand
One of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity. An organized military unit. A steplike formation
Echelon
To make more violent severe bitter or painful
Exacerbate
Stupid or foolish in a self satisfied way
Fatuous
Impossible to disprove. Behind argument
Irrefutable
Massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path
Juggernaut
Lacking spirit or interest. Halfhearted
Lackadaisical
A prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by a leader.
Litany
Grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing, having death as a subject
Macabre
An inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth
Paucity
To indicate beige hand that something is about to happen. To give advance warning of
Portend
To tear down, destroy completely, to cut or scrape off or out
Raze
To withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously committed, renounce, retract
Recant
To soak thoroughly, fill to capacity, to satisfy fully.
Saturate
Of a gloomy or duly disposition, cold or sluggish in mood
Saturnine
To cast off, discard, to get rid of something, unnecessary, to plod through as if through mud. A mire or state of depression
Slough
