Lev.G Unit 8
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| allege | (v.) to assert without proof or confirmation
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| arrant | (adj.) thoroughgoing, out-and-out, shameless, blatant
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| badinage | (n.) light and playful conversation
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| conciliate | (v.) to overcome the distrust of, win over to appease, pacify
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| countermand | (v.) to cancel or reverse an order or command with another that is contrary to the first
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| echelon | (n.) one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity, an organized military unit, a steplike formation or arangement
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| exacerbate | (v.) to make more violent, severe, bitter or painful
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| fatuous | (adj.) stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way
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| irrefutable | (adj.) impossible to disprove, beyond argument
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| juggernaut | (n.) a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path
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| lackadaisical | (adj.) lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted
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| litany | (n.) a prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with responses from the congregation, any repetitative chant
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| macabre | (adj.) grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing, having death as a subject
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| paucity | (n.) an inadequate qunatity, scarcity, dearth
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| portend | (v.) to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen
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| raze | (v.) to tear down, destroy completely, to cut or scrape off or out
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| recant | (v.) to withdraw a statement to belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract
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| saturate | (v.) to soak throughly, fill to capacity, to satisfy fully
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| saturnine | (adj.) of a gloomy or surly disposition, cold or sluggish in mood
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| slough | (v.) to cast off discard, to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary, to plod through as if through mud.
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| slough | (n.) a mire, a state of depression
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