unit7-8 English honors vocab

Allay

To calm or pacify

Bestial

Brutal,beastlike

Convivial

Festive,sociable,having fun together

Coterie

A close knit group

Counterpart

A person or thing corresponding to another

Demur

To object

Effrontery

Shameless boldness

Embellish

To decorate, touch up

Ephemeral

Lasting only a short time

Felicitous

Appropriate, well chosen

Furtive

Done shyly , sneaky

Garish

Glaring

Illusory

Misleading, deceptive

Indigent

Needy, impoverished

Inordinate

Far too great, exceeding limits

Jettison

To cast overboard, get rid of unnecessary

Misanthrope

Person who hates people

Pertinacious

Very persistent, holding firmly

Picayune

Little value or importance

Raiment

Clothing

Allege

To assert without proof

Arrant

Throughgoing, shameless

Badinage

Light and playful conversation

Conciliate

To win over

Countermand

To cancel or reverse command or order

Echelon

Series of grades in an organization

Exacerbate

Make more violent, severe

Fatuous

Stupid or foolish in a selfish way

Irrefutable

Impossible to disprove

Juggernaut

Massive force that crushes whatever in its path

Lackadaisical

Lacking spirit or interest

Litany

A prayer towards god

Macabre

Gruesome, horrible, having death as a subject

Paucity

An inadequate quantity, scarcity

Portend

To indicate that something is about to happen

Raze

To tear down, to destroy

Recant

To withdraw a statement which someone have said

Saturate

To soak through, fill capacity

Saturnine

A gloomy, or sluggish mood

Slough

To cast off, to get ride of