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English Vocab 7
Term | Definition |
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Austere | Severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain, harsh or sour in flavor |
Beneficent | preforming acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good |
Cadaverous | Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse |
Concoct | To prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish) to devise, invent, fabricate |
Crass | coarse, unfeeling, stupid |
Debase | to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate, to cause to deteriorate |
Desecrate | To commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently, to contaminate, pollute |
Disconcert | To confuse, to disturb the composure of |
Grandiose | Grand in an impressive or stately way, marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdy exaggerated |
Inconsequential | Trifling, Unimportant |
Infraction | a breaking of a law, or obligation |
Mitigate | to make milder or softer, to moderate, in force or intensity |
Pillage | to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder... the act of looting; booty |
Prate | To talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion |
Punctilious | very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or property |
Redoubtable | inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent |
Reprove | to find fault with, scold, rebuke |
Restitution | the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or postition; make good on a loss or damage |
Stalwart | Strong and sturdy; brave; resolute... a brave, strong person; a strong supporter, one who takes an uncompromising position |
Vulnerable | open to attack, capable of being wounded or damaged, unprotected |