Unit 7 Vocabulary- Honors ELA 2

Austere

Severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor.

Beneficent

Performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good.

Cadaverous

Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse.

Concoct

To prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate.

Crass

Coarse, unfeeling; stupid.

Debase

To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate.

Desecrate

To commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute.

Disconcert

To confuse; to disturb the composure of.

Grandiose

Grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated.

Inconsequential

Trifling, unimportant.

Infraction

A breaking of a law or obligation.

Mitigate

To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity; lessen, relieve, alleviate, diminish.

Pillage

To rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder.

Prate

To talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion.

Punctilious

Very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety.

Redoubtable

Inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent.

Reprove

To find fault with, scold, rebuke.

Restitution

The act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage.

Stalwart

Strong and sturdy; brave; resolute.

Vulnerable

Open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected.