Unit 7 Flashcards
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
Pillage
To rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; the act of looting; booty
Prate
To talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion
Punctilious
Very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette and propriety