Vocab Unit 8

Question 1

Arrant

Answer 1

Adj- thoroughgoing, out and out; shameless

Question 2

Badinage

Answer 2

N- light and playful conversation

Question 3

Conciliate

Answer 3

V- to overcome the distrust of, win over

Question 4

Countermand

Answer 4

V- to cancel or reverse one order or command with another that is contrary to the first

Question 5

Echelon

Answer 5

N- one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity; an organized military unit

Question 6

Exacerbate

Answer 6

V- to make more violent, severe

Question 7

Fatuous

Answer 7

Adj- stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way

Question 8

Irrefutable

Answer 8

Adj- impossible to disprove; beyond argument

Question 9

Juggernaut

Answer 9

N- a massive and inescapable force or object that crushed whatever is in its path

Question 10

Lackadaisical

Answer 10

Adj- lacking spirit or interest; halfhearted

Question 11

Litany

Answer 11

N- a prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with responded from the congregation; any repetitive chant; a long list

Question 12

Macabre

Answer 12

Adj- grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject

Question 13

Paucity

Answer 13

N- an inadequate quantity, scarcely, dearth

Question 14

Portend

Answer 14

V- to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen to give advance warning of

Question 15

Raze

Answer 15

V- to tear down, destroy completely; to cut or scrape off or out

Question 16

Recant

Answer 16

V- to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract

Question 17

Saturate

Answer 17

V- to soak thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully

Question 18

Saturnine

Answer 18

Adj- of a gloomy or surly disposition; cold or sluggish in mood

Question 19

Slough

Answer 19

V- to cast off, discard; to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary; to plod through as if through mud
N- a mire; a state of depression

Question 20

Allege

Answer 20

V- to assert without proof or confirmation