VOCABULARY UNIT 8
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- raze
- tear down, destroy completley; to cut or scrape off or out.
- conciliate
- to overcome distrust of; win pver; to appease, pacify; to reconcile, make constant
- slough
- to cast off;discard; to get rid of soemthing objectionable or unnessisary OR a mire state, depression.
- irrefutable
- impossible to disaprove;beyond argument
- lackadaisical
- lacking interest or spirit; half hearted
- arrant
- thoroughgoing,out-and-out,shameless, blatant
- litany
- a prayer consisting of short appeals to god recited by the leader alternating with responses from congregation;any repentitive chant; a long list
- macabre
- grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing, having death as a subject.
- portend
- to indicate before hand that something is about to happen; give advance warning
- juggernaut
- a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path
- paucity
- an inadequate quantity,scarcity, dearth. LACK
- allege
- to asset without proof or confirmation
- saturate
- to soak thoroughly,fill to capacity, to satisfy fully
- recant
- to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously committed,renounce, retract
- saturnine
- of a gloomy or surly disposition; cold or sluggish in mood. sullen and morse
- exacerbate
- to make more violent,severe, bitter, or painful
- badinage
- light and playful conversation
- echelon
- one of a series of grades in an organization or field activity;an organzized military unit; a steplike formation or arrangement LEVEL OR RANK
- fatuous
- stupid or foolish in a self satisfied way
- countermand
- to cancel or reverseonce order or command with another that is contrary to the first