Sadlier Connect Level G Unit 10

Askance

(adv.) With suspicion, distrust, or disapproval

Attenuate

(v.) To make thin or slender, to weaken or lesson in force, intensity, or value

Benign

(adj.) Gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect; not malignant

Cavil

(v.) To find fault in a petty way, carp

(n.) A trivial objection or critisism

Charlatan

(n.) One who feigns knowledge or ability; a pretender, impostor, or quack

Decimate

(v.) To kill or destroy a large part of

Foible

(n.) A weak point, failing, minor flaw

Forgo

(v.) To do without, abstain from, give up

Fraught

(adj.) Full or loaded with; accompanied by

Inure

(v.) To toughen, harden; to render used by something by long subjection or exposure

Luminous

(adj.) Emitting or reflecting light, glowing; illuminating

Obsequious

(adj.) Marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons

Obtuse

(adj.) Blunt, not coming to a point; slow or dull in understanding, measuring between 90 degrees and 180 degrees; not causing a sharp impression

Oscillate

(v.) To swing back and forth with a steady rhythm; to fluctuate or waver

Penitent

(adj.) Regretful for one's sins or mistakes

(n.) One who is sorry for wrongdoing

Peremptory

(adj.) Having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal; offensively self-assured, dictatorial; determined, resolute

Rebuff

(v.) To snub; to repel, drive away

(n.) A curt rejection, a check

Reconnoiter

(v.) To engage in reconnaissance; to make a preliminary inspection

Shambles

(n.) A slaughterhouse; a place of mass bloodshed; a state of complete disorder and confusion, mess

Sporadic

(adj.) Occuring at irregular intervals, having no set plan or order