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Unit 1 Lit Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| austere | severe or stern in manner; w/o adornment r luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour flavor (stick in the mud) |
| austere | syn: forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned /ant: mild, indulgent, luxurious, flamboyant |
| beneficient | performing acts of kindness or charity, conferring benefits doing good |
| beneficient | syn: humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable /ant: selfish, cruel, harmful, deletrious |
| cadaverous | pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse |
| cadaverous | syn: corpse like, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly /ant: robust, portly, rosy, the picture of health |
| concoct | to prepare by combining ingredients, make up ( as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate |
| concoct | syn: create, fashion, rustle up |
| crass | coarse; unfeeling; stupid |
| crass | syn: crude tasteless, oafish, obtuse /ant: refined, elegant, tasteful, polished, brilliant |
| debase | to lower in character quality, or value; to degrade; to cause to deteriorate |
| debase | syn: cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate /ant: elevate, uplift, improve, enhance |
| desecrate | to commit sacrilege upon, treat irrelevantly; to contaminate pollute |
| desecrate | syn: profane, defile, violate /ant: revere, venerate, consecrate |
| disconcert | to confuse; to disturb the composure of |
| disconcert | syn: upset, rattle, faze /ant: relax calm, put at ease |
| grandiose | grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated |
| grandoise | syn: majestic, bombastic, highfalutin /ant: simple modest, humble |
| inconsequential | trifling, unimportant |
| inconsequential | syn: trivial, negligible, paltry /ant: important, essential, crucial |
| infraction | breaking a law or obligation |
| infraction | syn: violation, transgression, offense |
| mitigate | to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity |
| mitigate | syn: lessen, alleviate, relieve /ant: aggravate, intensify, irritate, exacerbate |
| pillage | to rob goods by open force (as in war) plunder; the act of looting, booty |
| pillage | syn: savage sack, loot, booty |
| prate | to talk a great deal in foolish or aimless fashion |
| prate | syn: prattle, blab, palaver /ant: come to the point |
| punctilious | very careful and exact; attentive to the fine points of etiquette |
| punctilious | syn: precise, scrupulous /ant:careless, perfunctory |
| redoubtable | |
| redoubtable | |
| reprove | |
| reprove | |
| restitution | |
| restitution | |
| stalwart | |
| stalwart | |
| vulnerable | |
| vulnerable |
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