Unit 7 Flashcards
Austere
severe or stern in manner/ harsh or sour in flavor
Beneficent
performing acts of kindness of charity, doing good
Cadaverous
pale, resembling a corpse
Concoct
to prepare by combining ingredients, invent
Crass
coarse, stupid, tasteless, insensitive, mindless
(he said a crass statement about them)
Debase
to lower in character, quality, or value, to degrade
desecrate
to contaminate, to pollute
disconcert
to confuse, to ruffle/faze
grandiose
grand in an impressive or stately way, absurdly exaggerated
inconsequential
unimportant (details)
infraction
a breaking of a law or obligation
mitigate
to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity
pillage
to rob goods by open force (war), plunder, the act of looting
prate
to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion
punctilious
very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette