Unit 8 Vocab

Question 1

To assert without proof or confirmation

Answer 1

Assert

Question 2

Thoroughing out and out shameless

Answer 2

Arrant

Question 3

Light and playful conversation

Answer 3

Badinage

Question 4

To overcome the distrust of. Win over to appease. Pacif or reconcile. Make consistent

Answer 4

Conciliate

Question 5

To cancel or reverse one order or command with another Taft is contrary to the first

Answer 5

Countermand

Question 6

One of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity. An organized military unit. A steplike formation

Answer 6

Echelon

Question 7

To make more violent severe bitter or painful

Answer 7

Exacerbate

Question 8

Stupid or foolish in a self satisfied way

Answer 8

Fatuous

Question 9

Impossible to disprove. Behind argument

Answer 9

Irrefutable

Question 10

Massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path

Answer 10

Juggernaut

Question 11

Lacking spirit or interest. Halfhearted

Answer 11

Lackadaisical

Question 12

A prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by a leader.

Answer 12

Litany

Question 13

Grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing, having death as a subject

Answer 13

Macabre

Question 14

An inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth

Answer 14

Paucity

Question 15

To indicate beige hand that something is about to happen. To give advance warning of

Answer 15

Portend

Question 16

To tear down, destroy completely, to cut or scrape off or out

Answer 16

Raze

Question 17

To withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously committed, renounce, retract

Answer 17

Recant

Question 18

To soak thoroughly, fill to capacity, to satisfy fully.

Answer 18

Saturate

Question 19

Of a gloomy or duly disposition, cold or sluggish in mood

Answer 19

Saturnine

Question 20

To cast off, discard, to get rid of something, unnecessary, to plod through as if through mud. A mire or state of depression

Answer 20

Slough