Vocabulary Section-8

Question 1

1. ) Allege

Answer 1

To assert without proof or confirmation

Question 2

2. ) Arrant

Answer 2

thoroughgoing , out-and-out; shameless, blatant.

Question 3

3. ) Badinage

Answer 3

Light and playful conversation.

Question 4

4. ) Concilliate

Answer 4

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

Question 5

5. ) Countermand

Answer 5

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

Question 6

6. ) Echelon

Answer 6

One of series of grades in an organization or field of activity; an organized militaryunit; a steplike formation or arrangement.

Question 7

7. ) Exacerbate

Answer 7

To make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful.

Question 8

8. ) Fatuous

Answer 8

Stupid or foolish in self-satisfied way.

Question 9

9. ) Irrefutable

Answer 9

Impossible to disprove; Beyond arguement

Question 10

10. ) Juggernaut

Answer 10

A massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path.

Question 11

11. ) Lackadaisical

Answer 11

Lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted.

Question 12

12. ) litany

Answer 12

A prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with responses from the congregation; any repetitive chart; a long list.

Question 13

13. ) Macabre

Answer 13

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

Question 14

14. ) Paucity

Answer 14

An inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth

Question 15

15. ) Portend

Answer 15

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

Question 16

16. ) Raze

Answer 16

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

Question 17

17. ) Recant

Answer 17

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

Question 18

18. ) Saturate

Answer 18

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

Question 19

19. ) Saturnine

Answer 19

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

Question 20

20. ) Slough

Answer 20

To cast off, discard; to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary; to plot through as if through mud; a more ; a state of depression.