vocab 7a Flashcards
(adj.) severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor
austere
(adj.) performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good
beneficent
(adj.) pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
cadaverous
(v.) to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate
concoct
(adj.) coarse, unfeeling; stupid
crass
(v.) to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate
debase
(v.) to commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute
desecrate
(v.) to confuse; to disturb the composure of
disconcert
(adj.) grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated
grandiose
(adj.) trifling, unimportant
inconsequential
(n.) a breaking of a law or obligation
infraction
(v.) to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity
mitigate
(v.) to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; (n) the act of looting, booty
pillage
(v.) to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion
prate
(adj.) very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety
punctilious
