Sadlier - Level G - Unit 8

allege

(v) to accuse without evidence

syn: contend

ant: prove

arrant

(adj) shameless, blatant,

syn: egregious

badinage

(n) light playful conversation

concilliate

(v) to overcome distrust of, win-over

syn: mollify

ant: antagonize

countermand

(v) to reverse one order and replace with one contrary to the first

syn: recall

ant: reaffirm

echelon

(n) one of a series of grades in an orginization or field of activity; and organized military unit

syn: rank

exacerbate

(v) to make worse, violent, painful

syn: intensify

ant: ameliorate

fatuous

(adj) stupid or foolish in a self satisfied way

syn: silly, vapid

ant: intelligent

irrefutable

(adj) impossible to disprove

syn: undeniable

ant: disputable

juggernaut

(n) massive unescapable force

lackadaisical

(adj) lacking spirit, interest

syn: indifferent

ant: energetic

litany

(n) prayer consisting of short appeals to God, chant, long list

syn: catalog

macabre

(adj) grisly, gruesome, related to death

syn: grim

paucity

(n) inadequate quantity, scaricity

syn: lack

ant: glut, lots of

portend

(v) to foreshadow, to indicate beforehand

raze

(v) to tear down, destroy

recant

(v.) to withdraw a statement or belief

saturate

(v) to soak completely, fill to capacity

saturnine

(adj) gloomy, sad sluggish

syn: morose

ant: cheerful

slough

(v) cast off discard OR plod through mud

(n) a area of soggy ground , or state of depression