Unit 10 Shostak Vocabulary

Front 1

askance

Back 1

with suspicion distrust, or disapproval

Front 2

attentuate

Back 2

to make thin or slender, to weaken or lessen in force.

Front 3

benign

Back 3

gentle, kind, forgiving, understanding; a favosrable or beneficial effect

ex. a benign tumor. (not hurting)

Front 4

cavil

Back 4

to find fault in a petty way.
a trivial objection or criticizm

Front 5

charlatan

Back 5

one who feigns knowledge or vulnerability. a pretander, a quack

Front 6

dacimate

Back 6

to kill or destroy a large part of

Front 7

foible

Back 7

a weak point, failing, minor flaw

Front 8

forgo

Back 8

to do without, abstain from

Front 9

fraught

Back 9

full or loaded with;accompanied by

Front 10

inure

Back 10

to toughen, to harden; to render used by something by long subjection to exposure.

Front 11

luminous

Back 11

giving off light,, , ,, duh

Front 12

obsequious

Back 12

marked by slavish attentiveness, excessively submissive.

Front 13

obtuse

Back 13

unt, not coming to a point. slow or dull in understanding. not causing a sharp impression.

Front 14

oscillate

Back 14

to swing back and forth in a steady rhythm, to fluctuate or waver.

Front 15

pentinent

Back 15

regretful for one's own sins and mistakes.

Front 16

peremptory

Back 16

having to nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, scrutiny, resolute.

Front 17

rebuff

Back 17

to snub, to repel. or drive away.

Front 18

reconnoiter

Back 18

to engage in reconnaissance, to make a prelim inspection.

Front 19

shambles

Back 19

a slaughterhouse, a place of mass blood shed

Front 20

sporadic

Back 20

occuring at irreg. intervals.