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20 Cards in this Set

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Allege

(v.) to assert without proof or confirmation


Syn: claim, contend

Arrant

(adj.) thoroughgoing, out-and-out; shameless, blatant


Syn: egregious, unmitigated

Badinage

(n.) light and playful conversation


Syn: banter, persiflage, repartee

Conciliate

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


Syn: placate, mollify, propitiate

Countermand

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


Syn: recall, revoke

Echelon

(n.) one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity; an organized military unit; a step-like formation or arrangement


Syn: level, rank

Exacerbate

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


Syn: aggravate, intensify, worsen

Fatuous

(adj.) stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way


Syn: silly, vapid, inane, doltish, vacuous

Irrefutable

(adj.) impossible to disprove; beyond argument


Syn: indisputable, incontrovertible, undeniable

Juggernaut

(n.) a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in it's path


Lackadaisical

(adj.) lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted


Syn: listless, indolent, indifferent, lax

Litany

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


Syn: rigmarole, catalog, megillah

Macabre

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


Syn: grotesque, grim, ghoulish

Paucity

(n.) an inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth


Syn: lack

Portend

(v.) to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen; to give advance warning of


Syn: bode, foretell, foreshadow, suggest

Raze

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


Syn: pull down, demolish, shave off

Recant

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


Syn: repudiate, disavow

Saturate

(v.) to soak thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully


Syn: permeate, drench, imbue

Saturnine

(adj.) bitter or scornful, showing a brooding ill humor, gloomy and remote


Syn: gloomy, somber, melancholy

Slough

(v.) any outer covering that can be shed or cast off; to cast off, discard


Syn: molt