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Week Seven
Week Seven Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Austere (adjective) | Severe or stern in manner; simple, plain, without adornment or luxury |
| Beneficent (adjective) | Performing acts of kindness or charity; humanitarian, "doing good" |
| Cadaverous (adjective) | Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse, haggard |
| Concoct (verb) | To prepare by combining ingredients, to devise, invent, fabricate |
| Crass (adjective) | Coarse, unfeeling, stupid, oafish |
| Debase (verb) | To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate, to demean |
| Desecrate (verb) | To commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute, violate |
| Disconcert (verb) | To confuse; to disturb the composure of, to rattle or upset |
| Grandiose (adjective) | Grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation, majestic, bombastic |
| Inconsequential (adjective) | Trifling, unimportant, trivial |
| Infraction (noun) | A breaking of a law or obligation, a violation |
| Mitigate (verb) | To make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity, to alleviate |
| Pillage (verb or noun) | Verb: To violently rob of goods (especially during war), to plunder, to loot Noun: The act of looting; booty |
| Prate (verb) | To blabber, to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion |
| Punctilious (adjective) | Very careful and exact, precise, attentive to fine points of etiquette, fussy |
| Redoubtable (adjective) | Inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, fearsome |
| Reprove (verb) | To find fault with, to scold, to rebuke |
| Restitution (noun) | The act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage, compensation |
| Stalwart (adjective or noun) | Adjective: Strong and sturdy; brave; resolute Noun: A brave, strong person; one who takes an uncompromising position |
| Vulnerable (adjective) | Open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged, unprotected, defenseless |