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English Unit 8 Exner
test january 28
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allege | to assert without proof or conformation |
| arrant | shameless,throughout going |
| badinage | light and playful conversation |
| concilate | to win over |
| countermand | to cancel or reverse one order |
| echelon | one of a series of grades in an organization |
| exacerbate | to make more violent ,bitter or painful |
| fatuous | stupid or foolish |
| irrefutable | impossibe to disprove |
| juggernaut | a massive force or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| lackadaisical | lacking spirit or interest |
| litany | a prayer consisting a short appeals to god |
| macabre | grisly,gruesome |
| paucity | an inadeguate quantity |
| portend | to indicate beforehand that something is going to happen |
| raze | to tear down ,destroy |
| recant | renounce |
| saturate | to soak throughly |
| saturnine | of a gloomy disposition |
| slough | to cast off, to get rid of |