(v.) to assert without proof or confirmation

(adj.) thoroughgoing, out-and-out, shameless, blatant

(n.) light and playful conversation

(v.) to overcome the distrust of, win over to appease, pacify

(v.) to cancel or reverse an order or command with another that is contrary to the first

(n.) one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity, an organized military unit, a steplike formation or arangement

(v.) to make more violent, severe, bitter or painful

(adj.) stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way

(adj.) impossible to disprove, beyond argument

(n.) a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path

(adj.) lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted

(n.) a prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with responses from the congregation, any repetitative chant

(adj.) grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing, having death as a subject

(n.) an inadequate qunatity, scarcity, dearth

(v.) to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen

(v.) to tear down, destroy completely, to cut or scrape off or out

(v.) to withdraw a statement to belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract

(v.) to soak throughly, fill to capacity, to satisfy fully

(adj.) of a gloomy or surly disposition, cold or sluggish in mood

(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

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Vocab.

Lev.G Unit 8

Word	Definition
allege	(v.) to assert without proof or confirmation
arrant	(adj.) thoroughgoing, out-and-out, shameless, blatant
badinage	(n.) light and playful conversation
conciliate	(v.) to overcome the distrust of, win over to appease, pacify
countermand	(v.) to cancel or reverse an order or command with another that is contrary to the first
echelon	(n.) one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity, an organized military unit, a steplike formation or arangement
exacerbate	(v.) to make more violent, severe, bitter or painful
fatuous	(adj.) stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way
irrefutable	(adj.) impossible to disprove, beyond argument
juggernaut	(n.) a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path
lackadaisical	(adj.) lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted
litany	(n.) a prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with responses from the congregation, any repetitative chant
macabre	(adj.) grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing, having death as a subject
paucity	(n.) an inadequate qunatity, scarcity, dearth
portend	(v.) to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen
raze	(v.) to tear down, destroy completely, to cut or scrape off or out
recant	(v.) to withdraw a statement to belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract
saturate	(v.) to soak throughly, fill to capacity, to satisfy fully
saturnine	(adj.) of a gloomy or surly disposition, cold or sluggish in mood
slough	(v.) to cast off discard, to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary, to plod through as if through mud.
slough	(n.) a mire, a state of depression

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