UNIT 8 VOCAB

1. Allege

to assert without proof or confirmation

2. Arrant

through going, out

3. Badinage

light and playful conversation

4. Conciliate

to overcome the distrust of, win over; to appease, pacify; to reconcile, make consistent

5. Countermand

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

6. Echelon

one of a series of grade in an organization or a field of activity; an organized military unit; a steplike formation or arrangement

7. Exacerbate

to make more violent, severe, bitter or painful

8. Fatuous

stupid or foolish, in a self

9. Irrefutable

impossible to disprove; beyond argument

10. Juggernaut

a massive or inescapable force or object that crushes whatever come in it's path

11. Lackadaisical

lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted

12. Litany

a prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by a leader alternating with responses from the congregation; any repetitive chart; a long list

13. Macabre

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

14. Paucity

an inadequate qunatity, scarcity, dearth

15. Portend

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

16. Raze

to tear down, destroy completely; to cut or scrap off or out

17. Recant

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

18. Saturate

to soak thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully

19. Saturnine

of a gloomy or surly disposition; cold or sluggish in mood

20. Slough

to cast off, discard; to get rid of sometrhing as objectionable or unnecessary; to plod through as if through mud; a mire, state of depression