Eng. 2A: Vocab #8

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Allege

to assert without proof

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Arrant

shameless

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3

Badinage

light and playful conversation

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4

Conciliate

appease

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5

Countermand

to cancel one command with another opposite

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Echelon

organized unit

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Exacerbate

To make more violent

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Fatuous

Foolish in a self-satisfied way

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Irrefutable

beyond argument

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Juggernaut

A massive force that crushes everything

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Lackadaisical

half-hearted

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12

Litany

A prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by leader and alternating w/responses from the congregation.

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13

Macabre

gruesome

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Paucity

scarcity

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Portend

to give advanced warning of

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Raze

to tear down

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Recant

to withdraw a statement

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Saturate

to soak thoroughly

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Saturnine

of a gloomy disposition

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Slough

discard

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