Vocab Week 8

Question 1

Thoroughgoing, out and out, shameless, blatant

Answer 1

Arrant

S: egregious, unmitigated

Question 2

Light and playful conversation

Answer 2

Badinage
S: banter, persiflage, repartee
A: sermon

Question 3

To overcome the distrust of, win over; to appease, pacify, to reconcile

Answer 3

Conciliate
S: placate, mollify, propitiate
A: antagonize, alienate, estrange

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Countermand
S: recall, revoke
A: reaffirm, reassert

Question 5

One of. Series of grades in an organization or field o activity; an organized military unit; steplike formation or arrangement

Answer 5

Echelon

S: level, rank

Question 6

Go make more violent, sever, bitter, or painful

Answer 6

Exacerbate
S: aggravate, intensify, worsen
A: alleviate, mitigate, ameliorate

Question 7

Stupid or foolish in a self satisfied way

Answer 7

Fatuous
S: silly, vapid, inane, doltish, vacuous
A: sensible, intelligent, perceptive

Question 8

Impossible to disprove; beyond argument

Answer 8

Irrefutable
S: indisputable, incontrovertible
A: disputable, indefensible, untenable

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Juggernaut

S: force

Question 10

Lacking spirit of interest, halfhearted

Answer 10

Lackadaisical
S: listless, indolent, indifferent
A: energetic, vigorous

Question 11

A prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating

Answer 11

Litany

S: rigmarole, catalog, Megillah

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Macabre

S: grotesque, grim, ghoulish

Question 13

An inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth

Answer 13

Paucity
S: lack
A: abundance, glut, plenitude, deluge

Question 14

To indicate beforehand that something is about to happen; to give advance warning of

Answer 14

Portend

S: bode, foretell, foreshadow, suggest

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Raze
s: pull down, demolish
A: build, construct, raise

Question 16

To withdraw a statement or belief o which one ha previously been committed, renounce, retract

Answer 16

Recant
S: repudiate, disavow
A: reaffirm

Question 17

To soak thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully

Answer 17

Saturate
S: permeate, drench, imbue
A: drain

Question 18

Of a gloomy or surly disposition; cold or sluggish in mood

Answer 18

Saturnine
S: sullen, morose
A: lighthearted, cheerful, vivacious

Question 19

To cast off discard; to get ride of something objectionable or unnecessary; to plod though as if through mud; (n) a mire, a state of depression

Answer 19

Slough
S: shed, slog
A: take on, assume

Question 20

To assert without proof or confirmation

Answer 20

Allege
S: claim, contended
A: prove, deny