Unit 7 Vocabulary- Honors ELA 2

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Austere

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

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Beneficent

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

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Cadaverous

Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse.

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Concoct

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

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Crass

Coarse, unfeeling; stupid.

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Debase

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

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Desecrate

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

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Disconcert

To confuse; to disturb the composure of.

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Grandiose

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

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Inconsequential

Trifling, unimportant.

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Infraction

A breaking of a law or obligation.

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Mitigate

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

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Pillage

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

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Prate

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

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Punctilious

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

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Redoubtable

Inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent.

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Reprove

To find fault with, scold, rebuke.

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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.

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Stalwart

Strong and sturdy; brave; resolute.

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Vulnerable

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

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