Vocab 8

Front 1

allege

Back 1

to assert without proof or confirmation

Front 2

arrant

Back 2

throughgoing, out-and-out; shameless, blatant

Front 3

badinage

Back 3

light and playful conversation

Front 4

conciliate

Back 4

to voercome the distrust of, win over; to appease, pacify

Front 5

countermind

Back 5

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

Front 6

echelon

Back 6

one of a series of grades in an organization or field activity; an organized military unit

Front 7

exacerbate

Back 7

to make more violent, severe, bitter or painful

Front 8

fatuous

Back 8

stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way

Front 9

irrefutable

Back 9

impossible to disprove; beyond argument

Front 10

juggernaut

Back 10

a massive and inescapeable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path

Front 11

lackadaisical

Back 11

lacking in spirit or interest, halfhearted

Front 12

litany

Back 12

a prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leaderalternating with responces from the congregation; any repetitive chant

Front 13

macabre

Back 13

grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject

Front 14

paucity

Back 14

an inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth

Front 15

portend

Back 15

to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen; to give advance warning

Front 16

raze

Back 16

to tear down, destroy completely

Front 17

recant

Back 17

to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has been committed, renounce, retract

Front 18

saturate

Back 18

to soak thouroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy

Front 19

saturnine

Back 19

of a gloomy or surly disposition; cold

Front 20

slough

Back 20

to cast off, discard; to get rid of something considered unnecessary; to plod through as if in state of depression