Senior Chapter 8 Vocab

Front 1

v. to assert without proof or confirmation

Back 1

allege

Front 2

adj. thoroughgoing out and out, shameless, blatant

Back 2

arrant

Front 3

n. light and playful conversation

Back 3

badinage

Front 4

v. to overcome the distrust of, win over, to appease, pacify, to reconcile, make consistent

Back 4

conciliate

Front 5

v. to cancel or reverse one order or command with another that is contrary to the first

Back 5

countermand

Front 6

n. one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity, and organized military unit, a steplike formation or arrangement

Back 6

echelon

Front 7

v. to make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful

Back 7

exacerbate

Front 8

adj. stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way

Back 8

fatuous

Front 9

adj. impossible to disprove, beyond arguement

Back 9

irrefutable

Front 10

n. a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path

Back 10

juggernaught

Front 11

adj. lacking spirit or interest, half hearted

Back 11

lacksadaisical

Front 12

n. a prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with responses from the congregation, any repetitive chant, long list

Back 12

litany

Front 13

adj. grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing, having death as a subject

Back 13

macabre

Front 14

n. an inadequate quantit, scarcity, dearth

Back 14

paucity

Front 15

v. to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen, to give advance warning of

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portend

Front 16

v. to tear down, destroy completely, to cut or scrape off or out

Back 16

raze

Front 17

v. to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been commited, renounce, retract

Back 17

recant

Front 18

v. to soak thoroughly, fill to capacity, to satisfy fully

Back 18

saturate

Front 19

adj. of a gloomy or surly disposition, cold or sluggish in mood

Back 19

saturnine

Front 20

v. to cast off, discard, to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary, to plod through as if through mud
n. a mire, a state of depression

Back 20

slough