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Week 8 Vocab LWO
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allege | assert without proof or confirmation; contend |
| arrant | thoroughgoing, out-and-out; shameless, blatant; egregious, unmitigated; complete, total |
| badinage | light and playful conversation; banter, persiflage, repartee |
| conciliate | to overcome the distrust of, win over; to appease,pacify; to reconcile, make consistent; mollify, propitate |
| countermand | to cancel or reverse one order or command with another that is contrary to the first; recall, revoke |
| echelon | one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity; organized military unit; steplike formation or arrangement; rank |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful; intensify, worsen |
| fatuous | stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way; silly vapid, inane, doltish, vacuous |
| irrefutable | impossible to disprove; beyond arguement |
| juggernaut | massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| lackadaisical | lacking spirit or interest; half hearted; indolent, indifferent, lax |
| litany | prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with responses from the congregation; any repetitve chant; - a long list - ; catalog, megillah |
| macabre | grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing; having death as a subject; grim, ghoulish |
| paucity | inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth; lack |
| portend | to indicate before hand that something is about to happen, to give advance warning of; bode, fortell, suggest |
| raze | tear down; destroy completely; to cut or scrape off or out; pull down, demolish, shave off |
| recant | withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract; repudiate, disavow |
| saturate | soak thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully; drench, flood, imbue |
| saturnine | of a gloomy or surly disposition; cold or sluggish mood; morose |
| slough | to cast off; discard; to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary; to plod through as if through mud; a mire; a state of depression; shed, slog |